Shuttleworth, Lancashire

Description
Shuttleworth, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Walmersley and Shuttleworth township, Bury parish, Lancashire. The village stands adjacent to the river Irwell and to the Manchester and Bacup railway, near Summerseat. and Ramsbottom Junction stations, 4 miles N of Bury; is nearly a mile long; and has a post and money order office under Bury; telegraph office, Ramsbottom. There is a mechanics' institute, with reading-room and library. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1845. Population, 3838. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Much of the property belongs to the Earl of Derby. The family of Shuttleworth settled here in the time of Richard II., and took their name from the locality. A chain of hills is in the S, in which there are collieries and stone quarries. Whittle Pike attains an altitude of 1614 feet above sea-level. Another hill is crowned with Grant's Tower, 50 feet high, containing spacious rooms, and commanding a magnificent view. A reservoir formed in 1836 collects plentiful supplies of water for mills and factories from Whittle Hill, Facit, and Scout. There are cotton-mills, bleachworks, woollen-mills, and paper-mills. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £280. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1847, is a small building in the Gothic style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and bell-turret. There is a Baptist chapel.