Heap, Lancashire

Historical Description

Heap, a township and a parish, Lancashire. The township stands near the river Boche, which is crossed by a bridge called Heap Bridge, 2½ miles E of Bury station on the L. & Y.R. It includes also the town of Heywood, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bury. Part of the parish is in the county borough of Bury. Total acreage, 2923; population of the entire parish, 17, 208. There are large paper and woollen mills, and a Free Methodist chapeL

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 Heap from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

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