Elton, Lancashire

Description
Elton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Lancashire. The township is in Bury parish, lies adjacent to the Bury and Bolton and Bury and Haslingden railways, 1/2 mile WSW of Bury. It was incorporated in the municipal borough of Bury in 1885, and it has a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Bury. Acreage, 2553; population, 13,348; of the ecclesiastical parish of All Saints, 5835; of St Stephen's, 5829. The cotton manufacture is the chief industry, and there are also iron foundries, paper mills, and bleaching and dyeing works. The living of All Saints is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £400 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Bury. The church is an edifice in the Norman style. St Stephen's Church, erected in 1881, is a building in the Early English style. The living is a perpetual curacy; gross value, £250. It was constituted ,z separate ecclesiastical parish in 1884. There is also a Wesleyan and a Roman Catholic chapel.