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Castleton, Lancashire

Historical Description

Castleton, an ecclesiastical, manufacturing, and agricultural parish in Castleton township, Lancashire, 2½ miles SSW of Rochdale. Post town, Manchester. Population, 6395. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; value, £400 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The church was built in 1862, and is a fine edifice with a very handsome spire.

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 Castleton from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Castleton 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 districtOL11
Post TownRochdale

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