Walmersley, Lancashire Family History Guide
Walmersley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1741 from a chapelry in Bury St Mary Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Summerseat.
Alternative names: Walmersley cum Shuttleworth
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1839
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1838
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Presbyterian, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Association.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Elton
- Ashworth
- Heywood St James
- Bury St Paul
- Holcombe
- Bury St John
- Spotland
- Ramsbottom
- Heywood
- Shuttleworth
- Bircle
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
WALMERSLEY, a township, in the parish and union of Bury, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire, 2¼ miles (N. by E.) from Bury, on the road to Haslingden and Burnley; containing, with the ecclesiastical parish of Shuttleworth, 4880 inhabitants.
This township is situated on the east side of the river Irwell, and comprises, with Shuttleworth, 5056 acres, of which 582 are uninclosed; the surface is hilly and undulated, and the soil chiefly clay. Whittle Pike is in the township, and from its elevated summit may be seen, on a clear day, the estuary of the Mersey, near Runcorn.
The population is for the most part employed in six cotton-mills, in some calico-printing works, and in grinding dye-woods. The Burrs cotton-works here, are the property of Messrs. Thomas Calrow and Sons, and are turned by two water-wheels of 40-horse power: these works were formerly in the possession of the Peels, and were carried on by them. There are also a colliery, and four stone-quarries.
A district church dedicated to Christ, in the early English style, with a tower, was built in 1837, at a cost of £2300. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of Trustees; net income, £110, with a house. The tithes of Walmersley have been commuted for £66, and the glebe here consists of 51 acres.
In the township are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans. William Grant, in 1842, left the interest of £400 towards the support of a national school.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Lancashire Historical Directories
Administration
- County: Lancashire
- Civil Registration District: Bury
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Manchester
- Rural Deanery: Prestwich
- Poor Law Union: Bury
- Hundred: Salford
- Province: York