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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Waterfoot like this:
WATERFOOT, a village and a chapelry in Bury parish, Lancashire. The village stands on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 2½ miles W by S of Bacup; and has a post-office under Manchester, a r. station, cotton mills, and woollen factories. The chapelry was constituted in 1861. Pop., about 3,500. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £110. Patrons, Trustees. The church is recent.
Waterfoot is now part of ROSSENDALE District. Click here for graphs and data of how ROSSENDALE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Waterfoot itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Waterfoot, in Rossendale and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24603
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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