In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Little Hulton like this:
HULTON (LITTLE), a village and a township chapelry in Deane parish, Lancashire. The village stands 2¼ miles WSW of Halshaw-Moor and Farnworth r. station, and 3½ S of Bolton; is a considerable place, inhabited chiefly by weavers and colliers; and has a post office under Bolton. The chapelry is sometimes called Peel. ...
Acres, 1, 470. Real property, £18, 005; of which £11, 084 are in mines, and £86 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 3, 184; in 1861, 3, 390. Houses, 670. Peel Hall belongs to Harrison Blair, Esq.; and Kenyon Peel Hall, to Lord Kenyon. Coal is largely worked. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £150.* Patron, Lord Kenyon. The church is a plain building, with a bell turret. There are a school room used for worship, chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a national school.
Little Hulton through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Little Hulton, in Salford and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/96
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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