Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BLUE PITS

BLUE PITS, a village in Rochdale parish, Lancashire; 2¼ miles SSW of Rochdale. It has a r. station with telegraph, Castleton-Moor church built in 1862, and a Wesleyan chapel also built in 1862.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC
Place: Castleton By Rochdale

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