Description
Darcy Lever, a township in Leverbridge ecclesiastical parish, Bolton-le-Moors parish, Lancashire, 1 mile E of Bolton. It has a station on the L. & Y.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office, under Bolton. Acreage, 499 ; population, 1979. The living of Leverbridge is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £300. Patrons, the Crown and the Bishop of Manchester alternately. There is a Wealeyan chapel. The inhabitants are employed in a colliery and cotton mills.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
