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Crowborough, Cllr. Ronald G Reed signed 25th Anniversary celebratory Town Twinning documents in Crowborough Town Hall on Tuesday 10 March 2015 and in Horwich Public Hall on Thursday 19 March 2015, to re-new the twinning agreement. Horwich Cycle Club members travelled down to Crowborough on Friday 15 May 2015 and cycled with members of Wealden Cycle Club over that weekend as part of the celebrations.
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cotton industry was prominent as at least a secondary occupation in many households, weaving became a widespread occupation, and industries like bleaching, dying and paper making grew from the use of water power with the towns preindustrial plentiful access to flowing water. The town continued this path until the arrival of the railway workshops in the 19th century.
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close at the end of the year. Protest marches and spirited trade union resistance failed to alter the decision and at 1 pm on Friday, 23 December 1983 Horwich Works closed after 97 years. The town went through a period of high unemployment afterward, The freehold of the railway works site was transferred from British Rail to Bolton Council in the mid-1990s.
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Horwich Works was built on 142 hectares of land bought for £36,000. The first workshop, Rivington House opened in February 1887. It is 106.7 metres long by 16.8 metres wide. The long brick built workshops had full-height arched windows and were separated by tram and rail tracks. Work to construct the
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Several of the town's sporting organisations have origins in the sport and social clubs of Horwich Locomotive Works. Horwich RMI Harriers and Athletic Club founded in 1924, is based at Middlebrook and participates in road, fell and cross country races, track and field athletics. Horwich Cycling Club
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stores closer to the town centre. The Horwich indoor market building was closed and demolished in 2009, but the traditional town centre has many small, specialist shops and businesses, including a greengrocers, butchers, florist and gift shops. Free parking is available across the town and there is
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In 1881 the population of 3,761 lived in 900 houses and had remained stable for fifty years, the arrival of the railway works and other industries including W.T. Taylor's cotton mill resulted in a considerable change to Horwich leading to a rapid increase in population, creating a boom in population
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charter. It was signed by the Mayors of Horwich and Crowborough at a ceremony in the Public Hall, Horwich on 22 March 1990 and the Town Hall, Crowborough on 27 March 1990. On the 25th anniversary of the Town Twinning, in March 2015, the Mayor of Horwich, Cllr. Richard E W Silvester and the Mayor of
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Production changed and the last steam locomotive built at Horwich Works left on 27 November 1957, after which the works produced shunting diesel trains until 28 December 1962. It was reduced to repairing engines and maintaining railway wagons. On 18 February 1983 BREL announced that the works would
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land ownership had shifted from Church to the crown and was then sold to new owners, who transformed the town into an agricultural economy, and forests were cleared. Many of the farms from the period still existed until the housing boom of the 19th and 20th centuries, like many Lancashire towns the
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Our Lady's school was built in 1886 on Chorley New Road and Holy Family Primary School on Victoria Road in 1894. Holy Family was the first Lancashire County Council school to be granted aided status under the 1944 Education Act. The schools merged on the Victoria Road site as St. Mary's RC Primary
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At the 2001 UK census, Horwich had a population of 19,312 of which 9,370 were male and 9,942 were female. The 2001 population density is lower than Bolton at 12.5 people per hectare compared to 18.7 in Bolton. At the 2011 UK census, Horwich's population increased to 20,067 of which 9,777 were male
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who had arrived from across Britain and Ireland, still used in the 21st century. Many new streets near Horwich Locomotive Works were named after famous engineers of the time. Local government in Horwich meets and is administered from a typical Victorian-style building which became known as Horwich
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Lee Lane Congregational Church, founded in 1754, closed in 2005 and was converted into a flats. It was originally built in 1856 on the site of an earlier build known as Horwich Lee Chapel built in 1774 on the site of an earlier house, also owned by Thomas Willoughby and was used for meetings from
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has been a legacy affecting former workers and their families with asbestos dust also being carried in clothing. The redevelopment of the site required it to be cleared of contaminants before building commenced. Part of the site is planned for demolition for the creation of a link road in 2019,
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services 516 (Evening and Sunday services only), 517 and 518 which all between Horwich and Leigh via Westhoughton and Atherton. Service 576, which operates from Bolton to Wigan via the Middlebrook and Blackrod areas in Horwich also runs in the evenings.
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Ridgways provided land for the early 19th century Club Houses, a grid pattern development of streets of stone built cottages south of Church Street. Some had basements for hand loom weaving. In 1851 the occupants were crofters, stovers and bleachers.
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was suppressed and it was not until 1886 when Father Hampson opened St Mary's Roman Catholic Church on Chorley New Road that the local Catholic population had a formal place of worship. The presbytery there was built by Father McGrath in 1906.
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and tile works. In 1896 the Montcliffe Colliery was owned by Adam Mason and Son and managed by Joseph Crankshaw and Joseph Kenwright. It employed 26 men underground and seven surface workers getting coal and fireclay from the Mountain
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bombers in a mission using the Rivington reservoirs as landmarks to navigate at low level flying over the water then rooftops of Lever Park to find its target. The raid went off course due to low clouds. The company was taken over by
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residential accommodation with the benefit of access to the motorway and other transport links. The economic area is centered around the Middlebrook area, this is planned to expand with new industrial areas being built toward
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Coming with this increased population was a need for more houses, schools, and retail and service industries to provide for this new population. Large areas of former farmland was built on with the creation of vast numbers of
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Many of Horwich's traditional industries, Horwich Works and W.T. Taylor's cotton mill closed in the late 20th century. Regeneration was led by the construction of the Toughsheet Community Stadium for Bolton Wanderers at
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Horwich is covered by two electoral Wards of the Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council, the Horwich South and Blackrod, and Horwich North Wards. Each Ward elects three councillors to the Metropolitan Borough Council.
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was founded in 1934 as the Horwich Wheelers. It is involved in the organisation of the Horwich Carnival Road Races, held in the town centre. Horwich RMI Cricket Club was founded in 1892. The club plays in the
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With the closure of Horwich Locomotive Works and other heavy industries, the town went through a period of hardship until the development of the Middlebrook Retail Park and the arrival in the town of
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of eagles, herons and goshawks, in honey, millstones, and iron mines, in charcoal-burning, and the like issues, 60 shillings; of which the vesture in oaks, elms and wholly covered with such, 160
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and the prominent role in the local history of the family. Richard Pilkington, a leading non-conformist and owner of Horwich Manor, and his family feature in the town's history from the post
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adjacent to the University of Bolton Stadium where there is a Park and Ride facility with trains to Bolton, Manchester and Preston. Blackrod station is nearer the town centre. The original
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three-bay, 463.3 metres long, 36 metres wide, erecting shop began in March 1885. Inside it were 20 overhead cranes. By November 1886 the first locomotives arrived at the works for repair.
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Until the late 18th century, Horwich was a small rural community. In 1774, it had a population of 305, comprising 156 females and 149 males. After 1780 the population increased as the
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Public Hall, a gift to the town by Peter Martin of The Street, Rivington in 1879 and still in use. The post-war years saw a boom in the builds of Council Houses.
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to the industrial revolution being benefactors and founders of a number of places of worship. Another William Pilkington (1765–1831) became a physician and
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were notable in the town's history, prior to the Ridgways. The town coat of arms incorporates the Pilkington Cross, in recognition of the founder of the
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until 685, 'Smithills walled round to keep them at bay'. Around this time early Saxon Kings used the forest for the chase, while staying at the ancient
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The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company built the Railway Mechanics Institute in 1888. It became the Technical College but has been demolished.
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Mamecestre: being chapters from the early recorded history of the barony; the lordship or manor; the vill, borough, or town, of Manchester, Vol. 53
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brought changes to the town but remained constant until 1885 when the locomotive works were built more than trebling the population in ten years.
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Horwich extends to 3,230 acres (13.1 km) and measures 3 miles (4.8 km) from north to south and 2 miles (3.2 km) west to east. The
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have set up offices close the University of Bolton stadium. Watson Steel Structures founded in 1933 and BAe's successor company,
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which was originally the Rivington & Blackrod Grammar School on a site in Rivington close to the boundary with Horwich, or
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Horwich Vale Printworks, founded in 1799 by the River Douglas, printed cloth using machines and handblocks. On the slopes of
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near Bolton town centre in 1997. Indoor facilities for sports training and major racket sports tournaments are provided at
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flowing in a south westerly direction forms part of its northern boundary. The landscape to the north is dominated by
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In the period of the railway works from spring 1884 to 1983 Horwich changed drastically. The site first opened as the
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Constituency. Its Member of Parliament is Chris Green who won the parliamentary seat at the 2015 General Election.
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In 1598 a number of men were presented at the court leet for tithing and in 1621 the court leet recorded "paid for
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to passenger traffic on 27 September 1965, goods traffic continued until 1966, the line was fully closed in 1967.
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for carrying off deer in Horwich Chase which was described in 1322 as being within "a circuit of sixteen
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RECORDS & TRADITIONS OF Deane Church, Village, and Parish, IN LANCASHIRE, A.D. 597 to 1904 VOL. I.
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on Chorley New Road. The oldest school building is the old Horwich Parish School which was built as a
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and 10,290 were female. The 2011 census recorded a total of 9,013 households, of which were 1,979
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recovered the chapel for the established church. The chapel was replaced in 1782 and rebuilt as
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The first Horwich built locomotive, Number 1008, left the works in 1887 and is preserved at the
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had been practised from 1810. Primitive Methodists had a chapel on Horwich Moor and where a
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Horwich Works continued to build and repair locomotives for the LMS until the company was
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In the 1770s brothers, John and Joseph Ridgway, land agents to the Blundells, moved their
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and it was he who decided punishments. Trespassers in the forest were brought before the
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over "Horewich". The local enforcement of Forest Law was through a Bailiff who served the
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Horwich was within the county boundaries of Lancashire from the 12th century and was a
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A proposal to demolish the works and build 1,700 homes and a school was submitted to
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Horwich is situated close to the motorway network with access at junction 6 of the
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Ancient records are of Horwich Forest being overrun with wolves in the time of
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and Second World War, the works played a part in the war effort manufacturing
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Barker, Theo; Harrison, B. (2006). "Pilkington family (per. c.1825–1925)".
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has a paper manufacturing plant close to the University of Bolton Stadium.
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Frequent buses operate between Horwich and Bolton. The 575 is operated by
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Bolton to Preston road passes through the town which is accessed by the
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and took joint responsibility for the administration and funding of the
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Asbestos used to insulate steam engines and railway carriages linked to
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in early 2010. The initial phase of the development commenced in 2019.
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in St Helens. It is this branch that links Horwich to the founders of
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in Greater Manchester and was removed from the county of Lancashire.
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that came from Horwich after the man who made an escape forth of ye
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Horwich Urban District was abolished in 1974 and its area became a
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was granted and assigned on 6 December 1974 by the Earl Marshal.
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The Independent Methodist chapel in Lee Lane was built in 1867,
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The manor became the property of the Andertons of Lostock Hall,
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when Henry VIII seized all the church lands and then sold them.
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is the local newspaper including other regional newspapers,
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Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside
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and as with all other towns and villages across the country
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in 1995. The development which stretches into neighbouring
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Football stadium and Town with Rivington Pike in background
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has been led by out of town developments, particularly at
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between 1086 and 1100. In 1277 Robert Gresle, Baron of
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Parliamentary constituencies and Members of Parliament
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Horwich secondary school students years attend either
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Suburban localities in Horwich include Wallsuches and
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Local news and television programmes are provided by
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were built by W. & W. Bennett and Peter Gaskell.
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North and East Lancashire's Mining Industry in 1896
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Toughsheet Community Stadium from Crooked Edge Hill
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It is 5.3 miles (8.5 km) southeast of 4916:List of civil parishes in Greater Manchester 4254:Farrer, William; Brownbill, J, eds. (1911). 4211: 3543:Neighbourhood Statistics Horwich CP (Parish) 3358: 2871:(online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2713:. Lytham: City of London College. p. 42 2542: 2540: 1801:. (b) A vision of Britain through time. (c) 871:Horwich Works 18-inch gauge 0-4-0 locomotive 792:streets of Victorian and Edwardian types of 468:passing close to the south and west. At the 3662:"Area: UK Census 2001: Horwich CP (Parish)" 3519:, Lancashire Wildlife Trust, archived from 2968:, Bolton Council, p. 6, archived from 776:by 1891 to 12,850 people, Horwich became a 4438: 4424: 4395:www.horwichheritage.co.uk Horwich Heritage 4039: 3091:, British History Online, pp. 559–562 1193: 1179: 808:built a factory that supplied aircraft to 4410:Horwich: Its History, Legends, and Church 4366:. St Michael's on Wyre: Wyre Publishing. 4302:Horwich: Its History, Legends, and Church 3436: 3114: 2776: 2537: 1072:, giving Horwich the status of a town, a 1006:in the historic ecclesiastical parish of 495:, which, since 1997 has been the base of 4485:Greater Manchester Statutory City Region 3459: 3390: 3384: 3328:, Newsquest Media Group, 20 January 2010 3178: 3176: 3174: 3172: 3143: 2703: 2381: 1202:Neighbouring towns, villages and places. 1102: 1064:On 9 January 1974 Horwich was granted a 998:The coat of arms of Horwich Town Council 993: 866: 858: 718: 4308: 4296: 4233: 4018: 4016: 3566:Bolton Ward Profiles Horwich North East 3046:, projects.exeter.ac.uk, archived from 3028: 2868:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2861:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2844: 2770: 2743: 2731: 2697: 641:By the 16th century, subsequent to the 566:making use of the forests for hunting. 456:and 15 miles (24 km) northwest of 452:, 5.8 miles (9.3 km) northwest of 5246: 4150:, Horwich Cycling Club, archived from 3803:, Horwich Town Council, archived from 3696:, Watson Steel Company, archived from 3188:, Horwich Town Council, archived from 3078: 3076: 1908:, with Arriva services terminating in 1885:. The nearest railway stations are at 1709: 1613: 1517: 920:in 1922 becoming a constituent of the 472:, Horwich had a population of 20,067. 460:. It lies at the southern edge of the 5059:Manchester and Salford Junction Canal 5039:Manchester and Salford Junction Canal 4480:Greater Manchester Combined Authority 4419: 4361: 4342: 4089: 3959: 3785: 3636:Local population statistics 1801–1986 3621: 3416: 3364: 3338: 3308: 3296: 3209: 3169: 3149: 3108: 3089:A Topographical Dictionary of England 3082: 2947: 2922: 2832: 2820: 2808: 2758: 2691: 2628: 1995:Greatest Hits Radio Bolton & Bury 1174: 5264:Civil parishes in Greater Manchester 4322: 4013: 3725:, Newsquest Media Group, 2 July 2009 3067: 1881:Public transport is co-ordinated by 1864:stores on the outskirts of town and 1845:operates from the Middlebrook area. 1486: 1210: 1160:in Greater Manchester and is one of 922:London, Midland and Scottish Railway 574:at what is now Scholes Bank. By the 4400:www.bolton.org.uk Photos of Horwich 4064: 3073: 2986: 2635:, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2632:A Dictionary of British Place-Names 1954:is 50 minutes by direct train from 1154:Site of Special Scientific Interest 970:, M61 and Horwich Railway Station. 13: 5054:Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal 5044:Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal 3638:. Bolton Central Library Archives. 3633: 3215: 2998:, Spinning the Web, archived from 2514: 2218:Rivington and Blackrod High School 2056:Rivington and Blackrod High School 916:The L&YR amalgamated with the 701:James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham 697:Rivington and Blackrod High School 657:for stealing certain lynen cloth 8 519:The name Horwich derives from the 14: 5290: 5130:Greater Manchester County Council 4536:Metropolitan Borough of Stockport 4390:Bolton Museum Archive Photographs 4383: 4072:"Lee Chapel, Horwich Independent" 4025:St Mary, Horwich – Roman Catholic 3253:Newton Abbot: David and Charles ( 2437: 2003:Capital Manchester and Lancashire 1049:of Lancashire in 1894. Under the 770: 636: 549: 5221:Transport for Greater Manchester 4546:Metropolitan Borough of Trafford 4541:Metropolitan Borough of Tameside 4531:Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale 3651:. URL accessed 29 November 2007. 3572:, Bolton Council, archived from 3546:, Office for National Statistics 3417:Timan, Joseph (30 August 2019). 3391:McIntyre, Alex (18 April 2018). 3251:The Railway in Town and Country, 2574: 2455: 2359:members splitting away from the 2170:St Catherine's CE Primary School 2140:Horwich Parish CE Primary School 1883:Transport for Greater Manchester 1342: 1295: 1278: 1270: 1249: 945:British Rail Engineering Limited 918:London and North Western Railway 877:Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway 530:, meaning the place at the grey 396: 66: 59: 43: 5141:Population of major settlements 4238:. Manchester University Press. 4226: 4188: 4165: 4138: 4115: 4047:"Horwich Unitarian Free Church" 3989: 3965: 3930: 3903: 3882: 3861: 3840: 3818: 3791: 3756: 3729: 3711: 3684: 3627: 3590: 3557: 3507: 3471: 3314: 2953: 2850: 2337:11th Baron Willoughby of Parham 2108:Chorley New Road Primary School 1956:Horwich Parkway railway station 848: 739:. In 1798 the firm installed a 499:football club, who play at the 67: 4526:Metropolitan Borough of Oldham 4516:Metropolitan Borough of Bolton 4318:. Manchester: Chetham society. 3666:Office for National Statistics 3602:Office for National Statistics 3339:Vesty, Helena (4 April 2019). 2622: 2609:Office for National Statistics 1059:Metropolitan Borough of Bolton 975:Bolton Wanderers Football Club 863:Rivington House, Horwich Works 438:Metropolitan Borough of Bolton 1: 4551:Metropolitan Borough of Wigan 3224:Horwich Locomotive Works, LYR 3152:"Bombers Over Rivington 1942" 3122:"Horwich Official Town Guide" 2962:Bolton Mills Action Framework 2476: 1479:, 160 other flats (including 1338: 1296: 1250: 1164:. The site is managed by the 989: 806:de Havilland Aircraft Company 556:Ecgfrid, ruler of Northumbria 5064:Mersey and Irwell Navigation 4521:Metropolitan Borough of Bury 3738:Horwich Parkway rail station 3649:Horwich UD: Total Population 3150:Lacey, Paul (11 July 2019). 2892:UK public library membership 2496:Greater Manchester Gazetteer 2420: 2395:Toughsheet Community Stadium 2040: 1916:provide service 125 between 1876: 1831:small and medium enterprises 1279: 1271: 1098: 534:and in 1221 was recorded as 501:University of Bolton Stadium 7: 5259:Towns in Greater Manchester 4490:Mayor of Greater Manchester 4304:. Wigan: "Observer" Office. 3869:"North West Radio Stations" 3365:Abbit, Beth (8 July 2018). 3083:Lewis, Samuel, ed. (1848), 2675:Farrer & Brownbill 1911 2471:Listed buildings in Horwich 2448: 2425:In March 1990, Horwich and 2272: 2185:St Mary's RC Primary School 2091:List of schools in Horwich 845:visited the town in 1940. 538:. The name was recorded as 105:OS grid reference 32:Human settlement in England 10: 5295: 5171:Grade II* listed buildings 4220:. Retrieved 29 March 2007. 4200:, Horwich RMI Cricket Club 3468:. Retrieved 29 March 2007. 2444:List of people from Bolton 2441: 2374:church was built in 1890. 2361:Rivington Unitarian Chapel 2341:Bishop Gastrell of Chester 2241:St Joseph's RC High School 2155:Lord Street Primary School 2067:St Joseph's RC High School 2044: 1811: 1505: 852: 514: 126:177 mi (285 km) 22: 15: 5082: 5011: 4925: 4559: 4498: 4472: 4465:Greater Manchester Portal 4461: 3479:"Red Moss citation sheet" 3279:London: Macmillan Press ( 2790:. Manchester City Council 2463:Greater Manchester portal 2417:which it joined in 1934. 2363:as its doctrine changed. 2090: 2047:List of schools in Bolton 1981:Local radio stations are 1796: 1530:—     1455: 1400: 1345: 1227:Lower Rivington Reservoir 1208: 1051:Local Government Act 1972 1029:in that area and built a 943:. In 1970 it was renamed 818:variable pitch propellers 816:the factory manufactured 331: 321: 303: 299: 287: 275: 263: 259: 249: 237: 227: 217: 203: 185: 167: 151:Metropolitan borough 149: 133: 119: 103: 91: 54: 42: 37: 5279:Railway towns in England 5166:Grade I listed buildings 5029:Hulme Locks Branch Canal 4197:Horwich RMI Cricket Club 4177:, Horwich Carnival Races 4001:British Listed Buildings 3977:British Listed Buildings 3768:, Subterranea Britannica 2704:Boardman, James (1904). 2377: 1961: 1803:Neighbourhood Statistics 169:Metropolitan county 23:Not to be confused with 18:Horwich (disambiguation) 4218:Horwich's Town Twinning 3741:, GMPTE, archived from 3371:Manchester Evening News 3227:, Engineering Timelines 2897:(subscription required) 2647:(subscription required) 2407:2002 Commonwealth Games 2125:Claypool Primary School 2027:Manchester Evening News 1895:Horwich railway station 1091:Horwich is part of the 968:Middlebrook Retail Park 911:occupational inequality 892:National Railway Museum 602:with a yearly value in 475:Horwich emerged in the 5074:Stockport Branch Canal 5034:Islington Branch Canal 4499:Metropolitan districts 4262:British History Online 4234:Ashmore, Owen (1982). 4174:Horwich Carnival Races 4127:, Horwich RMI Harriers 3249:Simmons, Jack, (1986) 3131:. Horwich Town Council 2877:10.1093/ref:odnb/38700 2387: 1930:Diamond Bus North West 1108: 1043:Horwich Urban District 999: 872: 864: 810:Cobham's Flying Circus 780:in this period of the 239:Postcode district 5049:Manchester Ship Canal 4473:Statutory City Region 4405:The Parish of Horwich 4325:Winter Hill Scrapbook 3185:Industry and Commerce 2415:Bolton Cricket League 2391:Bolton Wanderers F.C. 2385: 2349:Commissioners' Church 2285:existed dedicated to 1914:Stagecoach Lancashire 1502:in Horwich since 1801 1493:Industrial Revolution 1106: 1057:of the newly created 1047:administrative county 1039:Local board of health 997: 870: 862: 782:Industrial Revolution 719:Industrial Revolution 671:11th Baron Willoughby 594:prosecuted Martin de 485:Industrial Revolution 49:Horwich Parish Church 5231:Manchester Metrolink 4574:Ashton-in-Makerfield 4362:Smith, M.D. (1999). 4343:Smith, M.D. (1988). 4147:Horwich Cycling Club 4124:Horwich RMI Harriers 3942:, St Joseph's School 3890:"Horwich Advertiser" 3466:Horwich Coat of Arms 2629:Mills, A.D. (2003), 2523:Horwich Township Map 2261:Work-based learning 1983:BBC Radio Manchester 1475:, 971 purpose-built 1469:semi-detached houses 1162:21 SSSIs in the area 1144:Lancashire Coalfield 1086:Horwich Town Council 790:brick terraced house 503:, having moved from 219:Sovereign state 16:For other uses, see 5181:Scheduled monuments 4562:(cities in italics) 4323:Lane, Dave (2008). 3448:, workhouses.org.uk 2581:Revealing Histories 2345:Holy Trinity Church 2335:, who later become 2327:, a soldier of the 2033:North West Enquirer 1503: 564:Ælla_of_Northumbria 562:, records exist of 370: /  5269:West Pennine Moors 5226:Manchester Airport 5211:Places of interest 4714:Ince-in-Makerfield 4639:Chorlton-cum-Hardy 4506:City of Manchester 4454:Greater Manchester 4364:More About Horwich 4257:Townships: Horwich 3495:on 13 October 2006 2397:having moved from 2388: 2063:Technology College 2017:Horwich Advertiser 1952:Manchester Airport 1897:was closed in the 1843:Matra BAe Dynamics 1500:Population changes 1498: 1132:West Pennine Moors 1109: 1012:Hundred of Salford 1000: 933:Transport Act 1947 924:, (LMS) in 1923. 873: 865: 684:in 1715 after the 489:urban regeneration 462:West Pennine Moors 442:Greater Manchester 351:Greater Manchester 326:www.horwich.gov.uk 305:UK Parliament 282:Greater Manchester 270:Greater Manchester 251:Dialling code 177:Greater Manchester 82:Greater Manchester 5241: 5240: 5069:Peak Forest Canal 5019:Bridgewater Canal 4579:Ashton-under-Lyne 4560:Major settlements 4448:Ceremonial county 4412:by Thomas Hampson 4334:978-1-4092-2068-8 4245:978-0-7190-0820-7 3962:, pp. 44–46. 3634:Tatton, Pauline. 3050:on 13 August 2011 3002:on 3 October 2006 2890:(Subscription or 2325:Thomas Willoughby 2307:English Civil War 2295:Church of England 2270: 2269: 2257:Alliance Learning 2200:Lever Park School 1991:Smooth North West 1906:Arriva North West 1809: 1808: 1792: 1791: 1696: 1695: 1600: 1599: 1487:Population change 1460: 1459: 1335: 1334: 1330: 1329: 835:British Aerospace 833:and subsequently 693:Pilkington family 686:Battle of Preston 620:Lord of the Manor 389: 388: 5286: 5024:Fletcher's Canal 4456: 4450: 4440: 4433: 4426: 4417: 4416: 4377: 4358: 4338: 4319: 4305: 4293: 4287: 4283: 4281: 4273: 4271: 4269: 4249: 4221: 4215: 4209: 4208: 4207: 4205: 4192: 4186: 4185: 4184: 4182: 4169: 4163: 4162: 4161: 4159: 4154:on 14 April 2010 4142: 4136: 4135: 4134: 4132: 4119: 4113: 4112: 4111: 4109: 4103: 4093: 4087: 4086: 4084: 4082: 4068: 4062: 4061: 4059: 4057: 4051:National Archive 4043: 4037: 4036: 4035: 4033: 4020: 4011: 4010: 4009: 4007: 3993: 3987: 3986: 3985: 3983: 3969: 3963: 3957: 3951: 3950: 3949: 3947: 3934: 3928: 3927: 3926: 3924: 3919:on 10 March 2009 3907: 3901: 3900: 3898: 3896: 3886: 3880: 3879: 3877: 3875: 3865: 3859: 3858: 3856: 3854: 3844: 3838: 3837: 3835: 3833: 3822: 3816: 3815: 3814: 3812: 3795: 3789: 3783: 3777: 3776: 3775: 3773: 3760: 3754: 3753: 3752: 3750: 3733: 3727: 3726: 3715: 3709: 3708: 3707: 3705: 3700:on 15 March 2012 3688: 3682: 3681: 3679: 3677: 3668:. 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Horwich (disambiguation)
Norwich

Horwich is located in Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
2011 Census
OS grid reference
SD639114
London
SE
Civil parish
Metropolitan borough
Bolton
Metropolitan county
Greater Manchester
Region
North West
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
BL6
Dialling code
Police
Greater Manchester
Fire
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Ambulance
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