Walmersley

"WALMERSLEY-CUM-SHUTTLEWORTH, a township in the parish of Bury, hundred of Salford, county Lancaster, 24 miles N.E. of Bury, its post town. It is situated on the river Irwell, and has a railway station at Summerseat. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the cotton spinning mills. In the neighbourhood are the ruins of a beacon tower, said to have been erected in Elizabeth's time, and nearly opposite, on an eminence, is the seat of the Grants, the eminent manufacturers. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester, value £130, in the patronage of trustees. The parochial charities produce about £23 per annum, of which £3 go to a school. There is a National school. The Independents and Wesleyans have each a chapel, and The latter a day-school."