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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"EDGEWORTH, a township in the parish of Bolton le Moors, hundred of Salford, county palatine of Lancaster, 7 miles N.W. of Bolton. The Entwistle station on the Yorkshire and Lancashire railway is near the village. It is situated on the old Roman road, and was, till recently, only a common. The people are mostly employed in cotton spinning and in the quarries. There is a place licensed for Divine service. The Independents and Wesleyans have each a chapel, and there is a Church school."