Place:Quarlton, Lancashire, England

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NameQuarlton
TypeTownship
Coordinates53.894°N 2.719°W
Located inLancashire, England     ( - 1898)
See alsoSalford Hundred, Lancashire, Englandhundred in which it was located
Bolton le Moors, Lancashire, Englandancient parish in which it was located
Edgworth, Lancashire, Englandparish into which it was absorbed in 1898
Turton, Lancashire, Englandurban district 1898-1974
Blackburn (borough), Lancashire, Englandnon-metropolitan borough covering the area 1974-1998
Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, Englandunitary authority covering the area since 1998

The following description from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography).

"QUARLTON, a township in Bolton-le-Moors parish, Lancashire; ¾ of a mile S E of Chapeltown [railway] station, and 5 N N E of Bolton. Acres: 500. Real property: £2,076; of which £472 are in mines. Population in 1851: 361; in 1861: 253. Houses: 51. The manor belongs to H. Wright, Esq. There are calico print-works."
the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Quarlton (#14 on map) was a boundary township to the northeast of the ancient and ecclesiastical parish of Bolton le Moors on the slopes of the West Pennine Moors and had an area of 798 acres (3.23 km2) which was mostly moorland and pasture. The hamlet lay at a height of about 650 feet (200 m) above sea level, the ground rises rapidly to the northeast to over 1,250 feet (380 m) at the boundary.

The manor originated as two oxgangs of land in Edgworth in which the Radcliffes kept on granting the main portion to the Traffords. Ellis de Quarlton contributed to the subsidy in 1332. Quarlton was held by the Radcliffes of Smithills Hall, and the Bartons, and was sold in 1723 by Lord Fauconberg. The Knights Hospitaller held land in Quarlton from early times; the land was occupied by the Smithills family.

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Quarlton was a sparsely populated hamlet with few houses. In 1666 no houses had more than two hearths liable to the hearth tax, and the total number of hearths was 21. By the mid 19th century the population was employed in collieries and the Quarlton Vale calico print-works which were established early in the century.

Quarlton ceased to exist when in 1898 it was incorporated into the village of Edgworth within the Urban District of Turton. The area became part of the Borough of Blackburn which increased its area and became Blackburn with Darwen unitary authority in 1998.

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  • A map of Lancashire circa 1888 supplied by A Vision of Britain through Time includes the boundaries between the parishes and shows the hamlets within them.
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  • A description of the township of Quarlton from British History Online (Victoria County Histories), published 1911
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