Description
Bedford, a township and a parish in the union of Leigh, Lancashire. the township lies on the Tyldesley and Kenyon branch railway, 1 mile ENE of Leigh, and has a station on the railway. It adjoins Leigh, and for all purposes is a part of that town. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 2826 ; population of the civil parish, 9455; of the ecclesiastical, 9010. There are cotton and silk mills, two iron foundries, collieries, and brickfields. The living is a vicarage called Bedford-Leigh in the diocese of Manchester;. net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Leigh. The church was built in 1840, and there are Methodist and Roman Catholic chapels, and small charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
