Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Belmont like this:

BELMONT, a chapelry in Bolton-le-Moors parish, Lancashire; 3¾ miles E of Chorley r. station. It was constituted in 1851; and has a post office under Bolton. Rated property, £4,005. Pop., 1,033. Houses, 202. There are cotton-mills and print-works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £120.* Patron, the Rev.Wright. The church is good.

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Travel writing

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