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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Chapeltown like this:
CHAPELTOWN, a railway station and a village in Lancashire; on the Bolton and Blackburn railway, 3¼ miles N by E of Bolton.
Chapeltown 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 Chapeltown itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Chapeltown, in Blackburn with Darwen and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/26525
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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