Description
Rumworth, a township mainly within the county borough of Bolton, Lancashire, 2 miles WSW of Bolton, with a station called Rumworth and Daubhill on the L. & N.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Lostock, under Bolton. Acreage, including Dean, 1244; population, 6754, of whom 4516 were in the borough. There is a cotton-mill, and the Bolton and County of Lancaster certified industrial school has accommodation for 180 boys. The ecclesiastical parish of Daubhill or Rumworth was constituted in 1880. Population, 6749. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £443 with residence. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a slightly endowed national school.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
