Birch, Lancashire
Historical Description
Birch, or Birch-St-Mary, an ecclesiastical parish formed from Bury and Middleton parishes, Lancashire, near the L. & Y.R., 2 miles WNW of Middleton. It was constituted in 1842, includes the township of Hopwood, and has a post and money order office under Heywood; telegraph office, Hopwood. Population, 4882. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Middleton. The church is a Gothic structure, built in 1828 at a cost of £4000. There is a working-men's club, founded 1890.
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 | Middleton | |
Hundred | Salford | |
Poor Law union | Oldham |
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 Birch from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Birch 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: