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Castleton (Rochdale), Lancashire

Historical Description

Castleton, a village and a township partly within and partly beyond the borough of Rochdale, Lancashire. The township stands on the Rochdale Canal, and has a junction station on the L. & Y.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester. Acreage, 3812; population, 38,509 including 31,745 in the county borough of Rochdale. The township was extended to include parts of Hopwood and Thornham, and is governed by a local board of twelve members. Castleton Moor, Marland, and Trub Smithy are also in the township. There are Roman Catholic, Congregational, Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels. There are traces of a Roman road through the township. Castleton Hall, built about 1688, is now a home for members of the Wesleyan body.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.


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: