In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ringley like this:
RINGLEY, a chapelry in Prestwich parish, Lancashire; on the river Irwell, and on the Manchester and Bury and Manchester and Bolton railways, 6¼ miles N W of Manchester. It has a station, of the name of Ringley-Road, on the M. and Bury railway; and its post town is Bolton. Pop., 800. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £250.* Patron, the Rector of Prestwich. The church was built in 1851.
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Ringley through time
Ringley is now part of Bolton district. Click here for graphs and data of how Bolton has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Ringley itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ringley, in Bolton and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25123
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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