Description
Edgeworth, a township in Lancashire, lying 5 miles NNE of Bolton and half a mile from Turton station, on the L. & Y.R. It has a post office under Bolton; money order and telegraph office, Turton. Acreage, 2925 ; population, 1861. There are cotton and manufacturing mills, stone quarries, a school church, a Congregational chapel of 1822, and a Wesleyan chapel of 1863. There is a Children's Home, established in 1872 for needy and forlorn orphans, who are admitted from any district without election. A farmstead is connected with the home, and the boys are trained in agriculture. Edgeworth, Entwistle, Quarlton, and part of the township of Turton comprise the parish of Turton.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
