Musbury
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MUSBURY, a township in Bury parish, Lancashire; 3 miles S W of Haslingden. Acres, 1, 170. Real property, £3,090; of which £47 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 1,228; in 1861, 997. Houses, 205. The decrease of pop. was caused mainly by the discontinuance of employment in a mill. The chapelry of Helmshore includes the township, and sometimes bears its name. See Helmshore.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Cemeteries
- St Thomas, Helmshore Road, Helmshore, Church of England
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Musbury.Church History
Church Records
- St Thomas, Helmshore Road, Helmshore, Church of England
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Civil Registration
The Register Office covering the Musbury area is Hyndburn and Rossendale.Gazetteers
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In 1835 Musbury was a township in the parish of Bolton.Information about boundaries and administrative areas is available from A Vision of Britain through time.