SHARPLES, a township in the parish of BOLTON, hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER, 2 miles (N.) from Great Bolton, containing 2065 inhabitants. In this township are a large power-loom factory, and a bleaching establishment, affording employment to about one thousand three hundred persons. Coal abounds in the neighbourhood; and there are reservoirs for supplying the town of Bolton with water. Children of this place have the benefit of a free education at Eagley-bridge school, in the township of Turton.