Kearsley is a small town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England, about four miles south-east of Bolton itself. Kearsley was an urban district of Lancashire from 1894 until 1974. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10002850.In 1933, part of Clifton was added to Kearsley UDC. Part of Outwood (Radcliffe) became part of Kearsley in line with the 1933 Lancashire Review.