Bacup
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)
Bacup Library,
St James' Square,
Bacup
OL13 9AH
Tel: 01706 873324
Details about the census records, and indexes for Bacup.
- Irwell Terrace, Baptist
- Providence, South St, Baptist
- Trinity, Market Street, Baptist
- Ebenezer, Burnley Road, Baptist, Weir
- Christ Church, Todmorden Rd, Church of England
- St John the Evangelist, Burnley Road, Church of England
- St Saviour, New Line, Church of England
- Holy Trinity, Newchurch Road, Stacksteads, Church of England, Tunstead
- South St, Congregational
- Ebenezer, Lanehead Lane, Particular Baptist
- Todmorden Rd, Primitive Methodist
- St Mary, Dale Street, Roman Catholic
- South St, Spiritualist
- Burnley Road, United Methodist Free Church
- Beulah, Rochdale Road, United Methodist Free Church, Brittania
- Mount Pleasant, Wesleyan Methodist
- Thorne, Wesleyan Methodist
- Wesley Place, Wesleyan Methodist
- Central, Newchurch Rd, Wesleyan Methodist
- Rochdale Road, Wesleyan Methodist, Britannia
- Todmorden Rd, Wesleyan Methodist, Sharneyford
- Newchurch Road, Stacksteads, Wesleyan Methodist, Tunstead
- Heald Lane, Wesleyan Methodist, Weir
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The Register Offices covering the Bacup area are
Hyndburn & Rossendale, and
Rochdale.
David Greenhalgh has extracted entries from
Pigot's 1828 Directory.
Ask for the gazetteer for a calculation of the distance from Bacup to another place.
In 1835 Bacup was a chapelry in the township of
Newchurch in Rossendale in the parish of
Whalley.
View maps of Bacup and places within its boundaries.
A
map of Bacup around 1890.
For probate purposes prior to 1858, Bacup 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.
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[Last updated: Wednesday, 03-Sep-2008 11:33:36 BST - Phil Stringer]
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