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Whitworth, Lancashire

Historical Description

Whitworth, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Rochdale parish, Lancashire. The village stands 3½ miles N by W of Rochdale, and has a station on the L. & Y.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Rochdale. The ecclesiastical parish was formerly more extensive than now. Population, 4508. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £310 with residence. The church was built in 1850, is Early English, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and western tower. There are Roman Catholic, Primitive, and Free Methodist chapels.

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 parishRochdale 
HundredSalford 
Poor Law unionRochdale 

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 Whitworth from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Whitworth 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:

DistrictRossendale
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtOL12
Post TownRochdale

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