Bury and Radcliffe Waterworks Act 1853
WHEREAS the Townships or Places of Musbury, Tottington Higher End, Walmersley and Shuttleworth, Ramsbottom, Tottington Lower End, Elton, Bury, Little Lever, Radcliffe, Radcliffe Bridge, Whitefield, Pilkington, and Prestwich, in and near the Valley of the River Irwell in Lancashire, are at present insufficiently supplied with Water: And whereas a good and plentiful Supply of Water can be obtained for these Places from the Waters flowing into and down the Ogden Brook and the River Ogden, and th...