Stubbins, Lancashire

Historical Description

Stubbins, a village in Ramsbottom ecclesiastical parish, Bury parish, Lancashire, with a station on the Manchester and Bacup section of the L. & Y.R., adjacent to Ramsbottom. It has a post and money order office under Manchester; telegraph office, Ramsbottom. There are a Congregational chapel of 1867, cotton-spinning and woollen mills, printworks, and some good residences.

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Stubbins 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