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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Astley Bridge like this:
ASTLEY-BRIDGE, a village and a chapelry in Bolton-le-Moors parish, Lancashire. The village is partly in the township of Sharples; stands near the Bolton and Blackburn railway, 3 miles N of Bolton; and has a post office† under Bolton. The chapelry was constituted in 1844. Rated property, £9,729. Pop., 3,210. Houses, 670. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £150. Patrons, the Crown and the Bishop alternately. The church was built in 1848. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and national and British schools.
Astley Bridge is now part of BOLTON District. Click here for graphs and data of how BOLTON has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Astley Bridge itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Astley Bridge, in Bolton and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1274
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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