Description
Heap, a township and a parish, Lancashire. The township stands near the river Boche, which is crossed by a bridge called Heap Bridge, 2 1/2 miles E of Bury station on the L. & Y.R. It includes also the town of Heywood, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bury. Part of the parish is in the county borough of Bury. Total acreage, 2923; population of the entire parish, 17, 208. There are large paper and woollen mills, and a Free Methodist chapeL
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
