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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.

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 parishMiddleton 
HundredSalford 
Poor Law unionOldham 

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:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictRochdale
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtOL10
Post TownHeywood

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