Breightmet
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BREIGHTMET, a township in Bolton-le-Moors parish Lancashire; 2½ miles E of Bolton. Acres, 970. Real property, £6,627; of which £1,504 are in mines. Pop., 1,562. Houses, 295. Cotton manufacture is carried on; and there is a church of 1855, a Wesleyan chapel, and an endowed school with 26 a year.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Bolton library.Cemeteries
- St James, St James Ave, Church of England
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Breightmet.Church History
Church Records
- Red Lane, Apostolic Church
- Bright Meadows, Winchester Way, Christian Fellowship
- St James, St James Ave, Church of England
- St Osmund, Long Lane, Roman Catholic
- Red Lane, United Reformed
- Bury Rd, Wesleyan Methodist
- Trinity, Bury Road, Wesleyan Methodist
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