Bacup, Lancashire Family History Guide
Bacup is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1801 from a chapelry in Newchurch in Rossendale Ecclesiastical Parish.
Alternative names: Bacop
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
Bacup
- Parish registers: 1788
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1793
Tunstead
- Parish registers: 1840
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Association.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BACOP, or Bacup, a town and three chapelries in Whalley and Rochdale parishes, Lancashire. The town stands on the river Irwell, at the terminus of a branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 7 miles NNW of Rochdale; is a seat of petty sessions and county courts; and carries on industry in cotton factories, woollen print works, Turkey-red dye-works, iron foundries, corn mills, and coal mining.
It has been much improved, by a local board, since 1864; and has a post office under Manchester, a r. station with telegraph, a banking office, a police station, waterworks, a market-hall of 1867 built at a cost of £6,000, a plain church of 1788, two churches of 1854 and 1865 in the early English style, two recent handsome Wesleyan chapels, seven other dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, a mechanics institution, with public hall and reading rooms, several public schools, a weekly market on Saturday, and two annual pleasure fairs. Pop. in 1851, 6,981; in 1861, 10,935. Houses, 2,085.
The chapelries are St. John, Christchurch, and St. Saviour. Pop., 6,981, 5,730, and 2,350. The livings of St. J. and are vicarages, and that of St. S. is a p. curacy, in the dio. of Manchester. Value of St. J. and C., each £300; of St. S., £159. Patrons of St. J., Hulme’s Trustees; of C., Five Trustees; of St. S., J. M. Holt, Esq.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Haslingden
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Manchester
- Rural Deanery: Whalley
- Poor Law Union: Haslingden
- Hundred: Blackburn
- Province: York