Ramsbottom, Lancashire
Historical Description
Ramsbottom, a large manufacturing village and two ecclesiastical parishes in Bury parish, Lancashire. The village stands on the river Irwell, 4 miles N of Bury and 8 S of Accrington; was the place where the first Sir Robert Peel established calico-printing; carries on cotton-spinning, calico-printing, and machine-making. There are also iron and brass foundries and a paper-mill. It is governed by an urban district council of twelve members, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bury, a station on the L. & Y.R., a police station, two churches, Baptist, Congregational, Wesleyan, Presbyterian, Primitive Methodist, Swedenborgian, and Roman Catholic chapels, Conservative and Liberal clubs, a public library, and an Oddfellows' hall. The Church of St Paul was built in 1850 at a cost of £3400, was enlarged in 1866, is in the Early English style, and has a chancel, nave, and N aisle, memorial windows to the late Lord Palmerston and others, and a tower and spire. St Paul's ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1844. Population, 4125. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The Church of St Andrew was consecrated in 1873, is in the Gothic style, and consists of chancel and nave, with tower and spire. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £300 with residence. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1875. Population, 1305. A fair is held yearly on the first Monday after 27 Aug. There is a cemetery of 8 acres under the control of a burial board.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Lancashire | |
| 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 Ramsbottom from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ramsbottom)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Ramsbottom 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: