Blatchinworth, Lancashire
Historical Description
Blatchinworth forms with Calderbrook a township in the parish of Rochdale, Lancashire. The township bears the name of Blatchinworth-with-Calderbrook, is 3 miles NE of Rochdale, and contains seven hamlets and Littleborough village-the last with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester, and a station on the L. & Y.R. Area, 4781 acres; population, 8384. It has romantic scenery, numerous good residences, a church, several dissenting chapels, an endowed school, cotton and woollen mills, collieries, and rich quarries.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Civil parish | Rochdale | |
Hundred | Salford | |
Poor Law union | Rochdale |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Blatchinworth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Blatchinworth, with Calderbrook)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: