In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Helmshore like this:
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.
Helmshore through time
Helmshore is now part of Rossendale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Rossendale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Helmshore itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Helmshore, in Rossendale and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20946
Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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