In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Darcy Lever like this:
DARCY-LEVER, a township in Bolton-le-Moors parish, Lancashire; on the Bolton and Bury railway, 1 mile E of Bolton. It has a station on the railway. Acres, 540. Real property, £9, 025; of which £4, 400 are in mines. Pop., 2, 071. Houses, 404. Coal is worked.
Darcy Lever through time
Darcy Lever is now part of Bolton district. Click here for graphs and data of how Bolton has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Darcy Lever itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Darcy Lever, in Bolton and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22477
Date accessed: 13th May 2024
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