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Farnworth
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Farnworth
Total population
26,939
Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Overview
Farnworth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Bolton, 4 miles south-west of Bury (7 km), and 8 miles (12.9 km) northwest of Manchester.
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History
Farnworth derives from the Old English fearn (fern) and worth (an enclosure). Farnworth was recorded as "Farneworth" and "Farnewrth" in 1278 and 1279, and "Ffornword" in a land survey of 1282. The town expanded rapidly in the 18th and 19th centuries around the coal mining industry. The collieries were part of an extensive mine complex, the Worsley Navigable Levels whose underground canals stretched from the Delph at Worsley and linked the mines to the Bridgewater Canal. Other industry included iron foundries and cotton mills. The owner of Farnworth Paper mills, T. B. Crompton, patented a continuous-drying process which contributed to the mechanisation of papermaking in 1821. The adjoining open land of Halshaw Moor became an area for recreation for the town, hosting the annual Halshaw Moor Wakes that were described as
Geography
Farnworth measures about two miles from east to west, and one from north to south with an area of on land sloping towards the north-east by the River Croal which forms the boundary. Will Hill Brook forms the northern boundary. The underlying rocks are the coal measures of the Manchester Coalfield. Districts in Farnworth include Dixon Green and New Bury. The town has grown along the Manchester to Bolton road, the A666 and the A575 road to Worsley and Eccles. Plodder Lane, the B6199, goes west past the Royal Bolton Hospital.
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Books about Farnworth
![[Report 1939]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11793771-M.jpg)
![[Report 1961]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/7985487-M.jpg)
![[Report 1950]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/7986019-M.jpg)
![[Report 1944]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11793772-M.jpg)
![[Report 1941]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11793775-M.jpg)
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Official Identifiers
ONS — UK Office for National Statistics
- ONS code
- osgb4000000074548934
- Local type
- Town
- Region
- North West
api.postcodes.io / OS Open Names
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image
- • ONS / OS Open Names — UK official place gazetteer, via api.postcodes.io (OS code, local type, county/unitary, district/borough, region)
- • ONS — UK Office for National Statistics — api.postcodes.io / OS Open Names