Bristol Township is a defunct

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that was located in

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. The township ceased to exist and was incorporated into the

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following the passage of the Act of Consolidation, 1854. It is the modern day Olney-Oak Lane Planning Analysis Section, though with a slight difference in the southern border. It is in present-day

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, although Olney-Oak Lane is sometimes considered to be separate from North Philadelphia entirely because of their unique architecture, culture and differing patterns of development.

History

Bristol Township was located at the north end of Philadelphia County, at the intersection of the angle which runs down from the extreme point between Philadelphia and Montgomery counties. It was of irregular form, and was bounded on the northwest by a portion of Springfield Township, Montgomery County; on the northeast by

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, Montgomery County. It extended along the latter to Oxford Township, but was bounded mainly on the east by Tacony Creek, on the south partly by the Wingohocking and the Northern Liberties Township, and on the west and southwest by Germantown Borough and Germantown Township. The

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ran through it to Branchtown and Milestown (now East Oak Lane), and thence to

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. Greatest length, 5½ miles; greatest breadth, 3 miles; area, 5,650 acres (23 km²). The name is derived from the city of

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Neighborhoods

* East Oak Lane * Feltonville * Fern Rock *

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* Melrose Park * Ogontz * Olney * West Oak Lane * Cedarbrook

Resources

''Chronology of the Political Subdivisions of the County of Philadelphia, 1683–1854''
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- excerpted from the book at the ushistory.org website *Ellet, Charles, Jr
''Map of the County of Philadelphia from Actual Survey, 1843.''
{{Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Municipalities in Philadelphia County prior to the Act of Consolidation, 1854