[1] Historically it was part of the hundred of Salford in Lancashire and centre of the parish of Deane which once covered roughly half of the present Metropolitan Borough of Bolton.

Contributors to the land tax in 1789 were Henry Blundell, who paid the largest share, Blackburne, and William Hulton.

[3] The population in the area increased in the 19th century as a result of the coal mines and erection of a cotton-mill and of weaving sheds.

[7] In 1898, the Rural District Council was abolished, and Deane became part of Bolton County Borough Deane-cum-Lostock Ward.

The Church Brook flows down Deane Clough to join the River Croal which forms the northern boundary.