Lostock is a residential district of

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, England, west of Bolton town centre and northwest of

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.The AA Route Planner
URL accessed 22 November 2007. Historically part of

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, Lostock is bounded by Deane to the southeast, Markland Hill to the northeast, and Middlebrook to the west.

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' football ground, the

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, is in nearby Horwich. After a railway station was built to serve the area in 1852, the area around the station – some east of Lostock Hall – became known as Lostock Junction. This name is still in use, although the station's name has changed to Lostock.

History

The name derives from

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''hlose'' a pig and ''stoc'' meaning a farm, usually 'stock' or 'Stoke' in place-names, but here referring to a

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. Another source suggested that the name is derived from

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, ''llostog'' meaning beaver, inferring the site of a stream where

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s were found, the reasoning due to the proliferation of Brythonic and

place-names in

. It has been variously recorded as Lostoc in 1212; Lastok in 1279; Lostok in 1292; Lostoke in 1301 and Lostock and Lostocke in the 16th century. In the

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Lostock was part of the

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of Manchester. It was subsequently held by Richard de Hulton and passed to the Andertons and the Blundells of Ince. Lostock Hall was an

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built for the Anderton family in 1563. The hall was demolished in 1824, but the

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remains and is a

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. During World War II,

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aircraft

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were produced at Lostock.

Local government

Lostock was a

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in the ancient

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of Bolton le Moors, in the hundred of

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, in the historic county of

. In 1837 Lostock joined with other

s in the area to form the

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and took joint responsibility for the administration and funding of the

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in that area.Bolton Workhouse
. URL accessed 22 November 2007. In 1866, Lostock became a

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, and in 1894 it became part of the Bolton Rural District, which was dissolved in 1898.A vision of Bolton Rural District
(Vision of Britain). URL accessed 22 November 2007. Under the

, Turton and

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(boltonmuseums.org.uk). URL accessed 22 November 2007. In 1891 the parish had a population of 891. Lostock is part of the Heaton and Lostock

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, one of twenty wards in the

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. The population of the ward at the 2011 Census was 13,564. The ward has three councillors who are elected for up to four years and represent the Lostock and Heaton areas.

Geography

Lostock was a hamlet covering 1,364 acres of land 4½ miles west of Bolton. Chew Moor in the southwest was the principal settlement of the township, it was a cluster of cottages housing the landless labourers and tenant farmers.

Demography

Township population

Ward population

In 1898, Lostock became part of the '' Deane-cum-Lostock

'' of the County Borough of Bolton. The ward's boundaries were used as a framework in

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to enumerate the total population in that area of the county borough. No census took place in 1941 because of the

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. In 1974, Lostock became part of the ''Deane-cum-Heaton Ward'' of the

. In the 2001 Census the ward had a population of 16,987.

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( 2001 Census
Deane-Cum-Heaton (Ward)
URL accessed 22 November 2007. In 2004, electoral ward changes took place which saw the creation of the present ''Heaton and Lostock Ward''.
. URL accessed 22 November 2007.

Transport

Lostock is located north of junctions 5 and 6 of the

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. The main roads which run through Lostock are the A58 (Beaumont Road), the A673 (Chorley New Road), and the A6027 (De Havilland Way). Lostock railway station was re-opened in 1988 and is served by Northern who operate services on the

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.Park & Ride - Lostock rail station
. URL accessed 22 November 2007. The earlier railway station, then named Lostock Junction, was opened in 1852, but was closed by the

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in November 1966.. URL accessed 22 November 2007.

Education

Lostock Playschool, established in 1977, is situated in the Lostock Parish Centre which opened in 1992 on Tempest Road. Lostock Primary School is situated on Glengarth Drive. Built in 1974, the school has a maximum of 210 pupils.Lostock Primary School
URL accessed 22 November 2007. Bolton Wanderers Free School is a sixth form centre that opened at the Macron Stadium in September 2014.

Sport

Chew Moor is home to

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clubs Tempest United and CMB Sports Club. The youth teams of Ladybridge F.C. moved to the Rumworth area in 2003. Lostock Tennis Club, Regent Road, Lostock. Newly-augmented, environmentally friendly floodlights (2022) make this tennis and table tennis club one of the best appointed in Bolton, and even the North West. There are four men's teams and five mixed teams which play in the Bolton Sport's Federation's (BSF) summer tennis leagues. A women's team plays in the Walkden Tennis league. Many active players take part in the BSF's winter league. In addition there is a great deal of activity around Youth tennis and coaching, with mixed teams taking part on the BSF's league.

References

External links

*
Lostock Residents Group

British History Online: Lostock

GENUKI: Lostock genealogy informationGENUKI: Lostock Township Boundaries Map (407 A)
{{Authority control Areas of Bolton Former civil parishes in Greater Manchester