Walshaw or Walshaw Lane, Lancashire
Historical Description
Walshaw or Walshaw Lane, an ecclesiastical parish in Bury parish, Lancashire, 1½ mile from Woolfold station on the L. & Y.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Tottington Lower End. Population, 1645. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £200. The church was built in 1891, and is in the Gothic style. There are two factories and a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Church Records
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Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
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