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BLACKROD, a village and a township-chapelry in Bolton-le-Moors parish, Lancashire. The village stands on elevated ground near the river Douglas and the Bolton and Preston railway, 4½ miles SSE of Chorley: and it has a joint station with Horwich on the railway, and a post office of its own under Chorley. Its site is supposed to have been occupied by the Roman station Coccium, on Watling-street; and many Roman relics have been found. The chapelry comprises 2,367 acres. Real property, £14,264; of which 7,711 are in mines. Pop., 2,911. Houses, 546. The property is not much divided. The inhabitants are chiefly cotton-spinners and colliers. A fire in a colliery here was extinguished by drawing into it the river Douglas. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £400.* Patron, the Vicar of Bolton. The church is good; and there is a Wesleyan chapel. A free grammar school has £140 a year, besides sums for three exhibitions at Pembroke college, Cambridge; and other charities have £104.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Bolton library.Cemeteries
- Manchester Rd, Cemetery
- St Katharine, Church Street, Church of England
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Blackrod.Church History
Church Records
- St Katharine, Church Street, Church of England
- Church Street, Methodist New Connexion
- St Andrew, Hill Lane, Roman Catholic
- Church Street, Wesleyan Methodist
- New St, Wesleyan Methodist
- Whitehall Lane (formerly Shepherd's Lane), Wesleyan Methodist
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Civil Registration
The Register Office covering the Blackrod area is Wigan and leigh.Description and Travel
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Gazetteers
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In 1835 Blackrod was a township in the parish of Bolton.History
A description of Blackrod in the 19th century.Maps
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Poor Houses, Poor law etc.
Poor Law records held at Wigan Archives.Probate Records
For probate purposes prior to 1858, Blackrod was in the Archdeaconry of Chester, in the Diocese of Chester. The original Lancashire wills for the Archdeaconry of Chester are held at the Lancashire Record Office.Societies
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