Ramsbottom
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RAMSBOTTOM, a small town and a chapelry in Bury parish, Lancashire. The town stands on the river Irwell and on the East Lancashire railway, 4 miles N of Bury; was the place where the first Sir Robert Peel established calico-printing; carries on cotton spinning, calico-printing, machine-making, rope-making, and iron and brass founding; is governed by a local board, under the act of 1858; and has a post-office under Manchester, a railway -station with telegraph, a commodious inn, a police station, a church, four dis-senting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, a public school, an athenĉum, a public library, and an Odd Fellows' hall. The church was built in 1850, at a cost of £3,400; was enlarged shortly before 1868; is in the early English style; and has a memorial window to the late Lord Palmerston, and a tower and spire. The Presbyterian chapel was built in 1834; is a handsome edifice, in the pointed style; and has a lofty pinnacled tower. The chapelry was constituted in 1844. Pop. in 1861, 4,134. Houses, 798. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £170. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Bury library.Cemeteries
- Cemetery Rd, Cemetery
- St Andrew, Bolton Street, Church of England
- St Paul, Crow Lane, Church of England
- St Andrew, Bolton Street, Presbyterian
- Manchester Rd, United Reformed
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Ramsbottom.Church History
Church Records
- Bolton Street, Baptist
- St Andrew, Bolton Street, Church of England
- St Paul, Crow Lane, Church of England
- Ramsbottom Lane, New Jerusalem
- Carr St, Pentecostal
- St Andrew, Bolton Street, Presbyterian
- Bolton Street, Primitive Methodist
- St Joseph, Bolton Street, Roman Catholic
- Patmos, Peel Brow, United Methodist Free Church
- Manchester Rd, United Reformed
- Market Place, Wesleyan Methodist
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Civil Registration
The Register Office covering the Ramsbottom area is Bury.Directories
David Greenhalgh has extracted entries from Pigot's 1828 Directory.Gazetteers
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In 1835 Ramsbottom was located in the township of Tottington Lower End in the parish of Bury.History
Information about the history of Ramsbottom.A description of Ramsbottom in the 19th century.