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SHARPLES, a township and a sub-district in Bolton-le-Moors parish, Bolton district, Lancashire. The town-ship lies 2½ miles N of Bolton; and contains the villages of Banktop, Sweet-Loves, High-Houses, Gale, Folds, Belmont, Piccadilly, Water-Meetings, Old Houses, and part of Astley-Bridge. Acres, 3,920. Real property, £14,697; of which £302 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 3,904; in 1861, 3,294. Houses, 697. There are cotton mills, calico print-works, extensive bleach-works, large reservoirs of Bolton water-works, the churches of Belmont and Astley-Bridge, Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and national and British schools. The sub-district contains also the higher end or detached part of Little Bolton township. Pop. with S. township, in 1861, 4,243. Houses, 872.
John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
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The Register Office covering the Sharples area is Bolton.
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"SHARPLES, a township in the parish of Bolton-le-Moors, hundred of Salford, county Lancaster, 2 miles N. of Bolton. This populous township comprises the villages of Astley Bridge, Bank Top, and several others. In the vicinity are the Birton waterworks for supplying the town of Bolton. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the cotton mills and bleaching establishments. The substratum abounds in coal."
"SWEET LOVES, a village in the township of Sharples, parish of Bolton-le-Moors, county Lancaster, 3 miles N. of Bolton. The inhabitants are employed in the neighbouring collieries and cotton mills."
"PICCADILLY, a village in the township of Sharples, parish of Bolton le Moors, county Lancaster, 2 miles N. of Bolton-le-Moors."
"OLDHAMS, a village in the township of Sharples, parish of Bolton le Moors, county Lancaster, 4 miles E. of Chorley."
"FOLDS, a village in the township of Sharples, parish of Bolton le Moors, county palatine Lancaster, 5 miles E. of Chorley."
"BELMONT, a hamlet in the parish of Bolton-le-Moors, hundred of Salford, in the county palatine of Lancaster, 4 miles from Chorley. The living is a perpetual curacy, of the value of £120, in the patronage of the Vicar of Bolton."
"BANK-TOP, (or Hill-top), a village in the township of Sharples, and parish of Bolton-le-Moors, in the hundred of Salford, in the county palatine of Lancaster, 4 miles to the N. of Bolton."
"ASTLEY-BRIDGE, a hamlet in the chapelry of Sharples, parish of Bolton-le-Moors, and hundred of Salford, in the county palatine of Lancaster, 3 miles to the N. of Bolton, its post town. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester, value £150, in the gift of the crown and the Bishop of Manchester."
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In 1835 Sharples was a township in the parish of Bolton.
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For probate purposes prior to 1858, Sharples 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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