The District of Lostock, Bolton in the County of -- Lancashire --

A township in Bolton-le-Moors parish, Lancashire; on the Bolton and Preston railway, 4 miles W of Bolton.

It is connected ecclesiastically with West Houghton chapelry. Acres, 1,426. Real property, £2,146. Pop., 580. Houses, 121.

Lostock Hall here is a timbered house of 1563, with criels; belonged to the Andertons; and passed to the Blundells.

There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.

From: The Imperial Gazetteer of England And Wales, by John Marius Wilson. London, 1872.

Entered here 27 November 2004 by Lynn Ransom Burton.