An Act for lighting with Gas Bacup, Waterfoot, Newchurch, Rawtenstall, Crawshaw Booth, and other Places in the Forest of Rossendale in Lancashire.
WHEREAS there are in the ancient Forest of Rossendale in Lancashire many manufacturing Places, which are rapidly increasing in Population, and are now insufficiently lighted, and a Company has been formed under the Style of "The Rossendale Gas Company" for supplying with Gas the Inhabitants of the said District: And whereas a Company for supplying the Town of Bacup in Rossendale with Gas was formed in the Year 1835, and has since that Time lighted the said Town, and the same Company was compl...