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.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Civil parish | Bury | |
Hundred | Salford | |
Poor Law union | Bury |
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:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
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