Wardle, Lancashire
Historical Description
Wardle, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Rochdale parish, Lancashire, 2½ miles NNE of Rochdale railway station. The parish was constituted in 1859, and it has a post and money order office under Rochdale; telegraph office, Smallbridge. Population, 1840. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £245 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Smallbridge. The church is modern, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and a tower with spire. There are Free and Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels. This place forms part of the township of Wardleworth, a township within the borough of Rochdale, Lancashire, with a station on the L. & Y.R. Acreage, 766; population, 19,238. The flannel and cotton manufactures are largely carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £500 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Rochdale. The church is in the Late Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and western tower with pinnacles, and contains several stained glass windows.
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 Wardle 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: