Rhodes, Lancashire
Historical Description
Rhodes, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Middleton and Prestwich parishes, Lancashire. The village stands 1½ mile WSW of Middleton railway station, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1864. Population, 2571. Extensive calico printing works are here, and employ about 1000 persons. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £282 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Middleton. The church is a small neat structure, consisting of chancel and nave, with a spire. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Swedenborgian chapels, and a public library and reading-room.
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 | Middleton | |
Hundred | Salford | |
Poor Law union | Oldham |
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 Rhodes from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Rhodes 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: