Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Blackrod

Blackrod, township and vil. with ry. sta., Bolton-le-Moors par., N. Lancashire, 5 miles SE. of Chorley by rail, 2388 ac., pop. 4234; P.O., T.O. Cotton spinning and coal mining are carried on.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Blackrod CP/Ch       Bolton le Moors CP/AP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Blackrod

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