Bradford, Lancashire

Historical Description

Bradford, a township in Manchester parish, Lancashire,, adjacent to the M.S. & L.R., 2 miles E of Manchester, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. The township was incorporated with Manchester in 1890, and is now included in the city. The parish of Christ Church, Bradford, Manchester, includes nearly the whole of Bradford, part of Beswick, and part of Openshaw, and has a population of 25,975. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £300 with residence, in the patronage of the Bishop. The church was built in 1862, at a cost. of £3500; it is in the Early English style, and cruciform. There are Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels and a police station. See MANCHESTER.

Administration

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

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 Bradford from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bradford)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Bradford 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:

• Blackburn Standard
• Burnley Express
• Lancashire Evening Post
• Lancaster Gazette
• Burnley Gazette
• Preston Chronicle
• Burnley Advertiser
• Burnley News