Denton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Denton, a township and two chapelries in Manchester parish, Lancashire. The township lies on the river Tame, and has a station on the L. & N.W.R., 3½ miles NNE of Stockport, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester. Acreage, 1706; population, 8666. Coal is worked, and hat-making carried on. Denton Hall, now a farmhouse, was the seat of the Hollands. The chapelries of St Lawrence and Christ Church were constituted in 1839 and 1853 respectively. The livings are rectories in the diocese of Manchester. Net value of St Lawrence, £350; patron, the Earl of Wilton. Value of Christ Church, £270; patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop; both with residence. There are Roman Catholic, Congregational, Unitarian, Wesleyan, and Methodist chapels, also a free library.
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 | Manchester | |
Hundred | Salford | |
Poor Law union | Ashton-under-Lyne |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
A transcript of the Registers of the Parish Church of St. Lawrence, Denton, 1695-1757 is available on CD ROM from the shop.
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Churches
Church of England
St. Lawrence (parish church)
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Denton from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Denton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: