In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Musbury like this:
MUSBURY, a township in Bury parish, Lancashire; 3 miles S W of Haslingden. Acres, 1, 170. Real property, £3,090; of which £47 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 1, 228; in 1861, 997. Houses, 205. The decrease of pop. was caused mainly by the discontinuance of employment in a mill. The chapelry of Helmshore includes the township, and sometimes bears its name. See Helmshore.
Musbury through time
Musbury is now part of Rossendale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Rossendale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Musbury itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Musbury, in Rossendale and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22550
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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