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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Holcombe like this:
HOLCOMBE, a village, a chapelry, and a sub-district in Bury district, Lancashire. The village stands near the river Irwell and the Bury and Haslingden railway, 1¼ mile SW of Ramsbottom r. station, and 4½ N by W of Bury. The chapelry is in Tottington-Lower-End township, Bury parish; and was recently made ecclesiastically parochial. ...
Post town, Ramsbottom, under Manchester. Pop., 2, 511. A tower or column, to the memory of Sir Robert Peel, stands on Holcombe hill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £175.* Patron, the Rector of Bury. The church is in the early decorated English style; and consists of nave, N transept, and chancel, with tower and fine spire. -The sub-district consists mainly of part of Tottington-Lower-End township, but includes a pendicle of Walmersley-cum-Shuttleworth township. Pop., 6, 645. Houses, 1, 276.
Holcombe is now part of BURY District. Click here for graphs and data of how BURY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Holcombe itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Holcombe, in Bury and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21269
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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