Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HELMSHORE

HELMSHORE, a village in Whalley parish, and a chapelry partly also in Bury parish, Lancashire. The village stands adjacent to the East Lancashire railway, 6 ½ miles N by W of Bury; is a large place, with several cotton mills and fulling mills; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Manchester. The chapelry includes also the hamlet of Flaxmoss, and the township of Musbury; is sometimes called Musbury chapelry; and was constituted in 1844. Rated property, £2, 963. Pop., 2, 274. Houses, 539. Pop. of the Whalley portion, 1, 075. Houses, 212. The property is much subdivided. Helmshore House is the seat of the Whitakers; Flaxmoss House, of the Turners; Flaxmoss, of T. Smith, Esq.; and Westbourne, of G. A. Smith, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1852; stands on an eminence near Helmshore village; and consists of nave, N aisle, and chancel, with tower and spire. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a Primitive Methodist chapel, and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Bury CP/AP/Tn       Lancashire AncC
Place names: HELMSHORE     |     MUSBURY
Place: Helmshore

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