In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stacksteads like this:
STACKSTEADS, a village in Tunstead chapelry, Lancashire; on the Manchester and Bacup railway, 1½ mile WSW of Bacup. It has a post-office‡ under Manchester, a r. station, and a large cotton-mill.
Additional information about this locality is available for Bacup
Stacksteads through time
Stacksteads is now part of Rossendale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Rossendale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Stacksteads itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Stacksteads, in Rossendale and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25128
Date accessed: 28th April 2024
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