Failsworth, Lancashire

Historical Description

Failsworth, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in in Manchester civil parish, Lancashire. The township lies on j the Eochdale Canal, and has a station on the Oldham branch i of the L. & Y.R., 4 miles NE of Manchester; and has a j post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester, i and a station on the railway. Acreage, 1073; population, j 10,425. The township is governed by a local board, j The chief industry is cotton spinning, but cotton and silk i weaving and the manufacture of hats are also carried on. j The chapelry is coterminate with the township, and was constituted in 1846. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1846. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, Uni-tarian, Methodist New Connexion, Swedenborgian, and Roman Catholic chapels, and several schools. The Swedenborgian chapel was erected in 1889 near the site of an older one.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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 Failsworth from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Failsworth)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Failsworth 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:

• Blackburn Standard
• Burnley Express
• Lancashire Evening Post
• Lancaster Gazette
• Burnley Gazette
• Preston Chronicle
• Burnley Advertiser
• Burnley News