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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Civil parishMiddle Ton 
HundredHigh Peak 
Poor Law unionChapel-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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictRochdale
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtOL11
Post TownRochdale

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