Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ramsbottom

Ramsbottom, manufacturing town with ry. sta., Bury par., SW. Lancashire, on river Irwell, 4 miles N. of Bury, 290 ac., pop. 5242; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks; here the first Sir Robert Peel established calico-printing.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "manufacturing town with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC
Place: Ramsbottom

Go to the linked place page for a location map, and for access to other historical writing about the place. Pages for linked administrative units may contain historical statistics and information on boundaries.