Tyldesley, Lancashire
Historical Description
Tyldesley, a town, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish, in Leigh parish, Lancashire. The town is 2½ miles ENE of Leigh, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester, a railway station on the L. & N.W.R. from Manchester to Wigan, several inns, a temperance and education hall, two churches, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan, and Calvinistic chapels, Liberal and Conservative clubs, three banks, public baths, collieries, ironworks, and extensive cotton mills. A cemetery with three mortuary chapels was formed in 1878. The township includes Shakerley hamlet and Mosley Common, and is called TyIdesley-with-Shakerley urban district Acreage, 2490; population, 12,891. It is governed by an urban district council, to whom the gas and waterworks belong. The living is a vicarage, with Shakerley annexed, in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Bishop. The church was built in 1825, and was thoroughly restored and a new chancel erected in 1886. It is in the Early Pointed style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, transept, W porch, and western tower with lofty spire, and contains several memorial windows. St John's Church, erected in 1886 as a chapel of ease, is now a separate parish called Mosley Common. The church is in the Gothic style, insisting of chancel, nave, aisles, vestry, and S porch.
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.
Maps
Online maps of Tyldesley 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: