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Hi Can anybody tell me where Blackrod is please Thanks Ann

BLACKROD, a village and a township-chapelry in Bolton-le-Moors parish, Lancashire. The village stands on elevated ground near the river Douglas and the Bolton and Preston railway, 4½ miles SSE of Chorley: and it has a joint station with Horwich on the railway, and a post office of its own under Chorley. Its site is supposed to have been occupied by the Roman station Coccium, on Watling-street; and many Roman relics have been found. The chapelry comprises 2,367 acres. Real property, £14,264; of which 7,711 are in mines. Pop., 2,911. Houses, 546. The property is not much divided. The inhabitants are chiefly cotton-spinners and colliers. A fire in a colliery here was extinguished by drawing into it the river Douglas. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £400.* Patron, the Vicar of Bolton. The church is good; and there is a Wesleyan chapel. A free grammar school has £140 a year, besides sums for three exhibitions at Pembroke college, Cambridge; and other charities have £104. John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) Glen

hiya, whenever i see somewhere i dont recognise i either google, or use multimap, and i generally get a good idea from that HTH Julie

Thanks Glen & Julie Ann

Blackrod is a few miles from my home town- Horwich and the nearest main town is Bolton all in Lancashire .

Hello Elizabeth, the post you've replied to is nearly 6 years old.