Bamford, Lancashire
Historical Description
Bamford, an ecclesiastical parish in the township of Birtle-cum-Bamford, and parishes of Middleton and Bury, Lancashire, 3 miles W of Rochdale. It has a postal telegraph office under Rochdale, a church (1885), and Congregational, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels, and its inhabitants are employed chiefly in two large woollen and cotton factories. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £209, in the gift of the Bishop of Manchester. Bamford Hall, a fine seat, is adjacent.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Civil parish | Middle Ton | |
Hundred | High Peak | |
Poor Law union | Chapel-en-le-Frith |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bamford from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bamford are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: