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- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
Bolton Rural District was a short-lived district in the administrative county of Lancashire. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894. It comprised an area surrounding the County Borough of Bolton, and was abolished when the borough was extended in 1898. Some of the parishes were absorbed into Bolton and some into adjoining urban districts.
The rural district was the successor to the Bolton Rural Sanitary District, which had been created in 1872. Whereas Bolton RSD was governed by a sanitary authority consisting of the local poor law guardians, the rural district was administered by the directly elected Bolton Rural District Council.
The district was abolished under the Bolton, Turton and Westhoughton Extension Act of 1898.
Civil Parishes
| Civil Parish | Duration | Destination in 1898 | Destination in 1974
| | Belmont | 1894 - 1898 | Turton Urban District | Borough of Blackburn, later Blackburn with Darwen unitiary authority
| | Bradshaw | 1894 - 1898 | Turton Urban District | Borough of Blackburn, later Blackburn with Darwen unitiary authority
| | Breightmet | 1894 - 1898 | Bolton County Borough | Bolton Metropolitan Borough, Greater Manchester
| | Darcy Lever | 1894 - 1898 | Bolton County Borough | Bolton Metropolitan Borough, Greater Manchester
| | Deane | 1894 - 1898 | Bolton County Borough | Bolton Metropolitan Borough, Greater Manchester
| | Edgworth (formerly Edgeworth) | 1894 - 1898 | Turton Urban District | Borough of Blackburn, later Blackburn with Darwen unitiary authority
| | Entwistle | 1894 - 1898 | Turton Urban District | Borough of Blackburn, later Blackburn with Darwen unitiary authority
| | Great Lever | 1894 - 1898 | Bolton County Borough | Bolton Metropolitan Borough, Greater Manchester
| | Harwood | 1894 - 1898 | Turton Urban District | Borough of Blackburn, later Blackburn with Darwen unitiary authority
| | Heaton (near Bolton) | 1894 - 1898 | Bolton County Borough | Bolton Metropolitan Borough, Greater Manchester
| | Longworth | 1894 - 1898 | Turton Urban District | Borough of Blackburn, later Blackburn with Darwen unitiary authority
| | Lostock | 1894 - 1898 | Bolton County Borough | Bolton Metropolitan Borough, Greater Manchester
| | Middle Hulton | 1894 - 1898 | Bolton County Borough | Bolton Metropolitan Borough, Greater Manchester
| | Over Hulton | 1894 - 1898 | Bolton County Borough and Westhoughton Urban District | Bolton Metropolitan Borough, Greater Manchester
| | Quarlton | 1894 - 1898 | Turton Urban District | Borough of Blackburn, later Blackburn with Darwen unitiary authority
| | Smithills | 1894 - 1898 | Bolton County Borough | Bolton Metropolitan Borough, Greater Manchester
| | Tonge (near Bolton) | 1894 - 1898 | Bolton County Borough | Bolton Metropolitan Borough, Greater Manchester
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Research Tips
- See the Wikipedia articles on parishes and civil parishes for descriptions of this lowest rung of local administration. The original parishes (known as ancient parishes) were ecclesiastical, under the jurisdiction of the local priest. A parish covered a specific geographical area and was sometimes equivalent to that of a manor. Sometimes, in the case of very large rural parishes, there were chapelries where a "chapel of ease" allowed parishioners to worship closer to their homes. In the 19th century the term civil parish was adopted to define parishes with a secular form of local government. In WeRelate both civil and ecclesiastical parishes are included in the type of place called a "parish". Smaller places within parishes, such as chapelries and hamlets, have been redirected into the parish in which they are located. The names of these smaller places are italicized within the text.
- Rural districts were groups of geographically close civil parishes in existence between 1894 and 1974. They were formed as a middle layer of administration between the county and the civil parish. Inspecting the archives of a rural district will not be of much help to the genealogist or family historian, unless there is need to study land records in depth.
- Civil registration or vital statistics and census records will be found within registration districts. To ascertain the registration district to which a parish belongs, see Registration Districts in Lancashire, part of the UK_BMD website.
- Lancashire Online Parish Clerks provide free online information from the various parishes, along with other data of value to family and local historians conducting research in the County of Lancashire.
- FamilySearch Lancashire Research Wiki provides a good overview of the county and also articles on most of the individual parishes (very small or short-lived ones may have been missed).
- Ancestry (international subscription necessary) has a number of county-wide collections of Church of England baptisms, marriages and burials, some from the 1500s, and some providing microfilm copies of the manuscript entries. There are specific collections for Liverpool (including Catholic baptisms and marriages) and for Manchester. Their databases now include electoral registers 1832-1935. Another pay site is FindMyPast.
- A map of Lancashire circa 1888 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time includes the boundaries between the parishes and shows the hamlets within them.
- A map of Lancashire circa 1954 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time is a similar map for a later timeframe.
- GENUKI provides a website covering many sources of genealogical information for Lancashire. The organization is gradually updating the website and the volunteer organizers may not have yet picked up all the changes that have come with improving technology.
- The Victoria County History for Lancashire, provided by British History Online, covers the whole of the county in six volumes (the seventh available volume [numbered Vol 2] covers religious institutions). The county is separated into its original hundreds and the volumes were first published between 1907 and 1914. Most parishes within each hundred are covered in detail. Maps within the text can contain historical information not available elsewhere.
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