This MedLibrary.org supplementary page on Bradshaw, Greater Manchester is provided directly from the open source Wikipedia as a service to our readers. Please see the note below on authorship of this content, as well as the Wikipedia usage guidelines. To search for other content from our encyclopedia supplement, please use the form below:
Related Sponsors
Bradshaw is suburb of the unparished area of South Turton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.1 Historically part of Lancashire, it lies on the southern edge of the West Pennine Moors.
History
Bradshaw is famous for its "tower without a church and a church without a tower". This refers to St. Maxentius's Church in Bradshaw. This church was originally one of the earliest Chapels of Ease for Bolton Parish Church. The 16th century tower is all that is left of the original Chapel of Ease. The present 1872 church building is near, but separate from the tower.2
Until the 19th century Bradshaw was a township (or civil parish) of the ancient Parish of Bolton-le-Moors, in the Salford hundred of Lancashire.1
In 1837 Bradshaw joined with other townships (or civil parishes) in the area to form the Bolton Poor Law Union and took joint responsibility for the administration and funding of the Poor Law in that area.3
In 1894 Bradshaw became part of the Bolton Rural District which took responsibility over matters such as local planning, council housing, and playgrounds and cemeteries. This short lived Rural District was dissolved in 1898 and its civil parishes were divided into various local authorities. As a result of this, Bradshaw became part of the Turton Urban District. Under the Local Government Act 1972, Turton Urban District was abolished in 1974 and was split in two with the southern part (including Bradshaw) going to the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, and the rest remaining in Lancashire as part of the Borough of Blackburn.1
References
- ^ a b c Greater Manchester Record Office - Gazetteer Index. URL accessed April 6, 2007.
- ^ Billington, W.D. (1982). From Affetside to Yarrow : Bolton place names and their history, Ross Anderson Publications (ISBN 0-86360-003-4).
- ^ Bolton Workhouse. URL accessed April 6, 2007.
External links
corrected infobox, edited article plus added references
 This Greater Manchester location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 5 April 2008, at 07:39.
Wikipedia Authorship and Review
Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by MedLibrary.org. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with MedLibrary.org.
Wikipedia Usage Guidelines
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "Bradshaw, Greater Manchester".
The URL for this specific entry is:
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.