Hey, Lancashire
Historical Description
Hey, a hamlet and an ecclesiastical parish partly in Ashton-nnder-Lyne parish, Lancashire, and Saddleworth parish, W.R. Yorkshire. It was a chapel of ease under Ashton from 1742 to 1860, when it was constituted a parish. Post town, Oldham; money order and telegraph office, Lees. Population, 3545. The living of Hey or Lees is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £160 with residence. The church is a plain building in the Early English style, with chancel, nave, and aisles.
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.
Maps
Online maps of Hey 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: