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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.

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 parishMiddleton 
HundredSalford 
Poor Law unionOldham 

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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

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

DistrictRochdale
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtM24
Post TownManchester

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