Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire

Historical Description

Barton upon Irwell, a township and part of the civil parish of Eccles, Lancashire. The township stands on the river Irwell, adjacent to the Manchester and Liverpool railway, near Patricroft station, 5 miles W of Manchester, under which it has a post and money order office; and it finds employment for many of its inhabitants in a silk mill and three spinning mills at Patricroft. An aqueduct here, across the Irwell, with three arches, in the line of the Bridgewater Canal, was the earliest structure of its kind in England. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £430 with residence. The patronage is under five trustees. The church was built in 1843. There are a fine Roman Catholic chapel of 1868, and two Methodist chapels. The township includes the hamlets of Lostock and Croft. Acreage, 10,621; population of the township, 35,826; of the ecclesiastical parish, 3247.

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 Barton upon Irwell from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barton-Upon-Irwell)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Barton upon Irwell 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