Quarlton

QUARLTON, a township, in the chapelry of Turton, parish and union of Bolton, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire, 4½ miles (N. N. E.) from Bolton; containing 370 inhabitants. Edward I., in the 12th year of his reign, granted free warren here to Henry de Lee. The township lies at the foot of the mountainous region of the Forest of Rossendale, and comprises 590 acres of pasture and moorland; the soil is very poor, and the scenery wild. The population is employed chiefly in collieries and print-works: the Quarlton Vale print-works, established forty years since, are now the property of George Millington, Esq.