Heaton is mostly a residential district of
Bolton
Bolton (, locally ) is a large town in Greater Manchester in North West England, formerly a part of Lancashire. A former mill town, Bolton has been a production centre for textiles since Flemish people, Flemish weavers settled in the area i ...
,
Greater Manchester
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, England. It lies about north west of Bolton town centre. It is bounded by
Deane to the south,
Markland Hill
Markland Hill is a mostly residential district of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. Historically within Lancashire, it is about 2.5 miles to the north west of the town centre. It lies on the lower south facing slopes of the West Pennine Moors. I ...
to the west, and
Smithills
Smithills is a mainly residential suburb of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. It is northwest of Bolton, south of Blackburn and northwest of Manchester. Smithills lies on the lower south facing slopes of the West Pennine Moors.
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and
Halliwell
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to the north.
History
Historically
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within the boundaries of the county of
Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...
, Heaton was created a township in the 12th century.
It was in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Deane in the hundred of Salford.
Its name derives from the
Old English
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''heah'' and ''tun'' meaning enclosed ground on high land and it was recorded as Heton in 1227 and Heton under Horewich in 1332.
In the reign of
Edward I
Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he ruled the duchies of Aquitaine and Gascony as a vassal o ...
Richard de Hulton had a charter of free warren in his demesne lands here.
[ The Heatons were an important family in the Deane area. They date back to the 12th century and originated from around ]Ulverston
Ulverston is a market town and a civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 11,524, increasing at the 2011 census to 11,678. Historically in Lancashire, it lies a few mi ...
in north Lancashire. From the 14th century some of the Heaton family held land in Heaton-under-the forest (or Heaton-under-Horwich) in the parish of Deane. This family lived in Heaton Old Hall and built Heaton New Hall. From this family they gave their surname to Deane's township of Heaton.
Governance
Historically, Heaton had been part of the Hundred
100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...
of Salford
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, a judicial division of southwest Lancashire. It was one of the 10 townships
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...
that made up the ecclesiastical parish
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of Deane.[ In 1866, Heaton's status was elevated from a township to a ]civil parish
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. Heaton became one of the civil parishes of the Bolton Rural Sanitary District
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*Urban sanitary districts in towns with existing local government bodies
*Rural sanitary dis ...
from 1872 to 1894, then part of Bolton Rural District from 1894 to 1898. Heaton then became a ward
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Division or unit
* Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward
* Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a pris ...
of the County Borough of Bolton
Bolton was, from 1838 to 1974, a local government district in the northwest of England conterminate with the town of Bolton.
History
Bolton was created a free Borough in 1253 when William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, granted a charter. However, ...
from 1898 to 1974.
Since 1974, Heaton has been part of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton
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. It gave its name to the Heaton Ward until 1980, then to the Deane-cum-Heaton Ward until 2004. Since 2004 Heaton forms part of the Heaton and Lostock Ward which is represented in Bolton Town Hall
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by three councillor
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Canada
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s. Heaton and Lostock Ward is also part of the Bolton West constituency and has been represented in the House of Commons
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by the Conservative Party
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Political parties called The Conservative P ...
MP Chris Green since 2015.
Geography
Heaton lies miles north west of Bolton on the lower south facing slopes of the West Pennine Moors
The West Pennine Moors is an area of the Pennines covering approximately of moorland and Reservoir (water), reservoirs in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, England. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
The West Pennine Moors are separat ...
. The township covered 1630 acres, its boundary is the River Croal
The River Croal is a river located in Greater Manchester, England. It is a tributary of the River Irwell.
Rising at the confluence of Middle Brook and Deane Church Brook, it flows eastwards through Bolton, collecting ''Gilnow Brook'' and t ...
to the south and is crossed by the road from Bolton to Chorley and contains the area of Markland Hill
Markland Hill is a mostly residential district of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. Historically within Lancashire, it is about 2.5 miles to the north west of the town centre. It lies on the lower south facing slopes of the West Pennine Moors. I ...
. The underlying rocks are Coal Measures
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containing sandstone and slate.[
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Religion
Christ Church, Heaton has its origins in a second-hand iron church erected in 1878. The present church, designed by architect Richard Knill Freeman
Richard Knill Freeman (1840, Stepney, London – 24 June 1904) was a British architect who began his career at Derby and moved to Bolton, Lancashire in the late 1860s. His work, in Victorian Gothic style and typically recalling the Decorated ...
took a year to build and cost about £4,000 and was consecrated in 1896.
Sport
Heaton Cricket Club play in the Bolton Cricket League
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.
References
Bibliography
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External links
GENUKI: Heaton, Lancashire genealogy
{{Areas of Bolton
Areas of Bolton