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Bacup, mun. bor., Rochdale and Whalley pars., Lancashire, 19¼ miles N. of Manchester by rail, 6400 ac., pop. 25,034; 1 Bank, 2 newspapers. Market, daily. The staple industries are cotton spinning and power-room weaving. In the neighbourhood are numerous coal-pits and vast stonequarries. Bacup was incorporated in 1882.John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)
Archives and libraries
Bacup Library,St James' Square,
Bacup
OL13 9AH
Tel: 01706 873324
Cemeteries
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Bacup.Church History
Church Records
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Civil Registration
The Register Offices covering the Bacup area are Hyndburn & Rossendale, and Rochdale.Directories
David Greenhalgh has extracted entries from Pigot's 1828 Directory.Gazetteers
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In 1835 Bacup was a chapelry in the township of Newchurch in Rossendale in the parish of Whalley.Maps
View maps of Bacup and places within its boundaries.Maps of Bacup East and West around 1890.
