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TOTTINGTON-HIGHER-END, a township in Bury parish, Lancashire; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 3 miles S of Haslingden. It contains the r. stations of Stubbins and Erwood-Bridge, the village of Edenfield, and several hamlets. Acres, 3,686. Real property, £13,330; of which £422 are in quarries, and £24 in mines. Pop. in 1851, 2,958; in 1861, 3,726. Houses, 699. There are a large factory, print-works, a paper-mill, and a Primitive Methodist chapel.
John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
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| Bolton Rd North, Stubbins, Congregational |
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| Bolton Rd North, Stubbins, Congregational |
The Register Office covering the Tottington Higher End area is Hyndburn & Rossendale.
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"EDENFIELD, (or Enfield), a chapelry in the parish of Bury, hundred of Salford, county palatine of Lancaster, 3 miles S. of Haslingden, and 6 N. of Bury, its post town. The Rosendale railway passes through the place. There are several stone-quarries, and cotton and woollen goods are extensively manufactured. The living is a curacy in the diocese of Manchester, value £150, in the patronage of the Rector of Bury. The church was rebuilt at the close of the last century, and is a commodious edifice, lighted with gas. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel, and there are endowed National and Sunday-schools. In the vicinity are several handsome residences.
"TOTTINGTON HIGHER END, a township in the parish of Bury, hundred of Salford, county Lancaster, 3½ miles N.W. of Bury, its post town, and 1 mile N. of Ramsbottom. It has stations at Stubbing and Ewood Bridge, on the East Lancashire railway. The village is situated near the railway. Some of the inhabitants are employed in the cotton mills. The township includes the village of Edenfield. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester, value £150, in the patronage of the Rector of Bury.
"STUBBINS, a hamlet in the parish of Bury, and the ecclesiastical district of Ramsbottom, county Lancaster, 4½ miles from Bury by the Manchester, Bury, and Bacup branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, on which it is a station."
"FOE BANK, a village in the township of Higher Tottington, county palatine Lancaster, 6 miles N. of Bury."
John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales - 1870-2
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In 1835 Tottington Higher End was a township in the parish of Bury.
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For probate purposes prior to 1858, Tottington Higher End 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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