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Tottington is described as a town in the Bury Council Official Guide and at the bottom of the Bury Council website.
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'''Tottington''' is a townvillage in the [[Metropolitan Borough of Bury]] in [[Greater Manchester]], England, on the edge of the [[West Pennine Moors]].<ref name="GM Gazeteer">{{cite web |url=http://www.gmcro.co.uk/Guides/Gazeteer/gazzt2w.htm |title=Greater Manchester Gazetteer |publisher=Greater Manchester County Record Office |access-date=4 April 2007|at=Place Names T to W|archive-date=18 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718144311/http://www.gmcro.co.uk/Guides/Gazeteer/gazzt2w.htm}}</ref>
 
[[Historic counties of England|Historically]] in [[Lancashire]], it was a medieval [[Fee simple|fee]], a type of [[royal manor]], which encompassed several townships from [[Musbury Valley|Musbury]] and Cowpe with Lench in the north to [[Affetside]] in the west and [[Walshaw]] in the south west, while the township of Tottington itself was a small agricultural settlement surrounded by open farmland and hunting ground where deer and wild boar were found.<ref>[http://www.bury.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1842 Tottington] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518080809/http://www.bury.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1842 |date=18 May 2015 }} Bury Council</ref>