Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WATERFOOT

WATERFOOT, a village and a chapelry in Bury parish, Lancashire. The village stands on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 2½ miles W by S of Bacup; and has a post-office under Manchester, a r. station, cotton mills, and woollen factories. The chapelry was constituted in 1861. Pop., about 3,500. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £110. Patrons, Trustees. The church is recent.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bury CP/AP/Tn       Lancashire AncC
Place: Waterfoot

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