Great Lever
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LEVER (GREAT), a township-chapelry, with a village, in Middleton parish, Lancashire; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, near the Bolton and Bury canal, 1½ mile SSE of Bolton r. station. Post town, Bolton. Acres, 770. Real property, £10,174; of which £3,750 are in mines. Pop., 722. Houses, 138. Most of the land belongs to the Earl of Bradford and the Earl of Ellesmere. There are some good residences; and there are chemical-works, bleaching-works, and collieries. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £130. Patron, the Earl of Bradford. The church is in the early and decorated English styles; and consists of nave and chancel, with a bell-turret.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Bolton library.Cemeteries
- St Michael, Manchester Road, Church of England
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Great Lever.Church History
Church Records
- St Bartholomew, St Bartholomew's Street, Church of England
- St Michael, Manchester Road, Church of England
- St William of York, Lever Edge Lane, Roman Catholic
- Victoria Methodist Chapel, Grecian Crescent, Wesleyan Methodist
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