Moorside, Lancashire
Historical Description
Moorside, an ecclesiastical parish in Oldham, Lancashire, formed out of the parishes of Waterhead and St James', all belonging originally to the old civil parish of Prestwick-cum-Oldham. It has a post and money order office under Old-ham; telegraph office, Oldham. Population, 2453. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £275 with residence. The church of St Thomas is a building in the Gothic style, and consists of nave, aisles, chancel, N and S porches, and a tower with a fine peal of eight bells and a four-faced clock.
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: