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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Tockholes like this:
TOCKHOLES, a township and a chapelry in Blackburn parish, Lancashire. The township lies 3 miles SSW of Blackburn r. station. Acres, 2,050. Real property, £2,546. Pop. in 1851, 939; in 1861, 820. Houses, 164. The manor belongs to E. Shorrock, Esq. Two skirmishes occurred here in the civil wars of Charles I.—The chapelry was constituted in 1842. ...
Post town, Blackburn. Pop. in 1861, 2,542. Houses, 504. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £160.* Patron, the Vicar of Blackburn. The church was rebuilt in 1833. There are an Independent chapel and two national schools.
Tockholes is now part of BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Tockholes itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Tockholes, in Blackburn with Darwen and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10923
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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