Lying within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire since the High Middle Ages, Bacup was a chapelry linked with the parishes of Whalley and Rochdale, and divided between the townships of Newchurch and Spotland in the hundred of Blackburn.

On 11 August 2007, a couple walking through Stubbylee Park in Bacup, Lancashire, England were attacked by a group of teenagers because they were goths.

Bacup () is a town within the Rossendale borough of Lancashire, England.

At the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, Bacup — which encompasses the outlying communities of Britannia, Stacksteads, Rockcliffe, Trough Gate and Weir — had a population of 12, 763.

For centuries, Bacup was a small and obscure centre of domestic flannel and woollen cloth production, and many of the original weavers ' cottages survive today as listed buildings.

Following the Industrial Revolution Bacup became a mill town, its landscape dominated by distinctive and large rectangular woollen and cotton mills.

Bacup received a charter of incorporation in 1882, giving it honorific borough status and its own elected town government, consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors to oversee local affairs.

In the late 20th century Bacup became part of the borough of Rossendale – at which time the town was suffering from chronic depopulation and urban decay with little in the way of infrastructural change in a century.

Nevertheless, Bacup's historic character, culture and festivities have encouraged the town's suburbanisation and redevelopment as a commuter town ; English Heritage has proclaimed Bacup as the best preserved cotton town in England, and its town centre is designated as a conservation area for its special architectural qualities.

The name Bacup is derived from the Old English fūlbæchop.

Bacup and its hinterland has provided archeological evidence of human activity in the area during the Neolithic.

In the 10th century the Anglo-Saxons battled against Gaels and Norsemen at Broadclough in northern Bacup.

Medieval Bacup was an obscure and lightly populated chapelry linked with the parishes of Whalley and Rochdale, and divided between the townships of Newchurch and Spotland in the hundred of Blackburn.

The adoption of the factory system, which developed into the Industrial Revolution, enabled the transformation of Bacup from a small rural village into a mill town, populated by an influx of families attracted by Bacup's cotton mills, civic amenities and regional railway network.

Bacup received a charter of incorporation in 1882, giving it honorific borough status and its own elected town government, consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors to oversee local affairs.

Bacup followed the regional and national trend of deindustrialisation during the early and mid-20th century ; a process exacerbated by the closure of Bacup railway station in 1966.

Bacup also experienced population decline ; from 22, 000 at the time of the United Kingdom Census 1911, to 15, 000 at the United Kingdom Census 1971.

Bacup's first local authority was a Local board of health established in 1863 ; Bacup Local Board of Health was a regulatory body responsible for standards of hygiene and sanitation in the Bacup Urban Sanitary District.

The Municipal Borough of Bacup became a local government district of the administrative county of Lancashire under the Local Government Act 1894, meaning it shared power with the strategic Lancashire County Council.

Under the Local Government Act 1972, the Municipal Borough of Bacup was abolished, and since 1 April 1974 Bacup has formed an unparished area of Rossendale, a local government district of the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire.

From 1983 until 2010, Bacup was represented in the House of Commons as part of the parliamentary constituency of Rossendale and Darwen, by Janet Anderson, a member of parliament belonging to the Labour Party.

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