Turton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Turton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Bolton parish, Lancashire. The township lies 4 miles N by E of Bolton, and has a station on the L. & Y.R., a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bolton, and a cattle fair on 4 and 5 Sept. It comprises Brawnfield, Egerton, and Walmsley, and is governed by an urban district council. Acreage, 4614; population, 6354; of the ecclesiastical parish, 3412. There are numerous good residences. Industry is carried on in cotton mills, printworks, bleachworks, and several quarries. Ancient British and Roman relics have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £190 with residence. The church, erected in 1841, is in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, W porch, and a western tower with spire. There are Congregational and Wesleyan chapels in Turton, Congregational, Wesleyan, and Unitarian chapels in Walmsley, and charities £100. There is an hospital, erected in 1886 from funds left by Mr Stephen Blair, in addition to £10,000 for its endowment. Turton Tower, now the seat of the Kay family, who are lords of the manor, is an ancient castellated mansion, almost entirely rebuilt in 1596, and enlarged at different times since that date. Walmsley was formed into a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1844.
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
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Directories & Gazetteers
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Land and Property
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Newspapers and Periodicals
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