Audenshaw, Lancashire
Historical Description
Audenshaw, one of the four divisions of the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. The village stands adjacent to the Ashton Canal and the Manchester and Sheffield railway, 3 miles SW of Ashton, under which it has a post office. Hooley Hill and Hockport Road, Ashton, are the money order and telegraph offices. Population, 6547. There are stations at Guide Bridge on the M.S. & L.R., and at Hooley Hill on the L. & N.W.R. St Stephen's is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1844, and has a population of 7859. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £375 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is in the Early English style. A new vicarage was erected in 1890. There are Methodist chapels and good schools. The Countess of Stamford and Warrington is lady of the manor. Many of the inhabitants are employed in hat-making, cotton-spinning, calico-printing, and in engineering works.
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 | Ashton | |
Hundred | Salford | |
Poor Law union | Ashton-under-Lyne |
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 Audenshaw from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Audenshaw)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Audenshaw 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: