Pendleton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Pendleton, a township and two ecclesiastical parishes in Lancashire, forming part of the county borough of Salford. The township is situated 2 miles NNW from Manchester, contains extensive cotton-spinning and manufacturing concerns, dye, bleach, print, and iron works, and has a post, money order,. and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Manchester. The town-hall, a beautiful building erected at a cost of £15,000, contains an assembly-room 85 feet long, 38 wide, and 30 high. There are several churches and places of worship for all denominations of dissenters. The township comprises Pendlebury, Irlam-o'-th'-Height, and Chorlestown. It is in the parish of Eccles and the county borough of Salford, and has, an area of 24:16 acres; population, 50,543. Coal exists in seams 7 feet thick and under, and is largely worked. The Manchester and Bolton section of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway passes through the township, and has a passenger and extensive goods stations. The two ecclesiastical parishes are St Thomas and St Barnabas, constituted in 1865 and 1888. Population, 19,669 and 3966 respectively. The livings are perpetual curacies in the diocese of Manchester;. value, £400 and £108 respectively. Patrons, the Vicar of Eccles and the Bishop of Manchester.
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 | Eccles | |
Hundred | Salford | |
Poor Law union | Salford |
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 Pendleton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pendleton)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Pendleton 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: