Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STACKSTEADS

STACKSTEADS, a village in Tunstead chapelry, Lancashire; on the Manchester and Bacup railway, 1½ mile WSW of Bacup. It has a post-office‡ under Manchester, a r. station, and a large cotton-mill.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lancashire Ancient County
Place: Stacksteads

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