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Patricroft, Lancashire

Historical Description

Patricroft, an ecclesiastical parish in the borough of Eccles, Lancashire. It adjoins the Liverpool and Manchester branch of the L. & N.W.R., is 4½ miles W of Manchester, and has a railway station, cotton mills, a quilting factory, machine works, an iron foundry, and many private residences. The parish was constituted in 1868. Population, 12,902. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £290. Patron, the Bishop. The church was built in 1868 at a cost of over £4000, is a building in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north and south porches, and a small bell-turret. There are also Baptist, Congregational, Wesleyan, and Free Methodist chapels, a hospital and dispensary for Eccles and Patricroft, built in 1877 and extended in 1883, an infants' nursery, public baths, and a county police station. A new workhouse was erected in 1894 at a cost of £20,000, and affords accommodation for 500 inmates. The old workhouse is transformed into a temporary hospital. See ECCLES.

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

Administration

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

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Civil parishEccles 
HundredSalford 

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 Patricroft from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Patricroft are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictSalford
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtM30
Post TownManchester

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