Lostock

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Lostock is a mostly residential district of Bolton in Greater Manchester, lying about 3 miles to the west of the town centre. It is bounded by Deane to the south, Markland Hill to the north and the Middlebrook development to the west. Lostock has a train station which lies on the Blackpool North Line.

Lostock has a football club called Tempest United.

The name Lostock is of very ancient derivation and dates back centuries prior to the Norman era. There have been several translations and various spellings of the names Lostock and Chew Moor. The name of Lostock could have been derived from the Old English 'hlose' meaning pig or swine, and 'stoc' meaning sty. Another possible derivation may be from the Celtic, the Welsh name for beaver is 'llostog' and may refer to a river where beavers were found, and a third but unexplained meaning is 'a tree trunk floating on a stream'.

Besides working on the land, extensive coal mining began in Lancashire in the 1600's and certainly by the early 1700's men a women were working pits in the Lostock area.

Once upon a time Chew Moor was once just a cluster of cottages, housing the landless labourers, and the smaller tenant farmers. Chew Moor was the principal hamlet of the township of Lostock.Whilst Rumworth and other areas of Lostock were divided into larger pockets of farmland, and tenanted by farmers.