Harwood, Lancashire
Historical Description
Harwood, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Bolton-le-Moors civil parish, Lancashire. The village stands 3 miles NE of Bolton, 4 W of Bury, and about 1 mile from the Oaks station on the L. & Y.R. The township comprises 1240 acres; population, 1564. Post town, Bolton; money order office, Bradshaw; telegraph office, Bromley Cross. There are stone quarries and small bleach-works. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1841, and consists of parts of Harwood and Breightmet townships. The remaining part of Harwood township is comprised in Bradshaw ecclesiastical parish. Population, 1050. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £300 with residence. The church was erected in 1840, in the Late Romanesque style, and has a small tower. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Walsh's Educational Institute, established in 1872, comprises library, lecture-hall, reading-room, &c. It is open to the public on payment of a small fee.
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 | Bolton | |
Hundred | Salford | |
Poor Law union | Bolton |
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 Harwood from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Harwood 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: