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.
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 | Rochdale | |
Hundred | Salford | |
Poor Law union | Rochdale |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Whitworth)
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:
- 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: