Welcome to our Local History Section

Lostock and Chew Moor are villages to the west of Bolton town centre, situated in the county of Lancashire, North West England. My interest in Local History prompted me to start this website and invite others to share

Since moving to Lostock in 1979 I have seen a great deal of changes. Some information has been obtained from a book published in 1974 by R. Hargreaves. His son Mr. David Hargreaves has given me his kind permission to quote from the book which can be seen in the Archives section of Bolton Metropolitan Library.

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I would welcome old or recent photographs, articles of interest concerning the villages and their history and anything that might be of interest. Any contribution would be credited to the author as would be the copyright of any image