DEAN PARISH

1830

DEAN

Dean, a parish in the hundred of Salford, 2 miles S.W. from Bolton. A discharged vicarage in the archdeaconry of Chester, value £4. Patron the lord chancellor. The village and church of Dean are situated in the township of Rumworth, in the population of which it is included. The parish is opulent and extensive, containing many flourishing establishments in various branches of the cotton manufacture, and several bleaching grounds. Here are also valuable coal mines. It contains the following townships :-

(3) The New Lancashire Gazetteer or Topographical Dictionary 1830