East Crompton, Lancashire
Historical Description
Crompton, East, an ecclesiastical parish in Crompton township, Prestwich parish, Lancashire, constituted in 1845. Post town, money order, and telegraph office, Shaw under Oldham. Population, 6562. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £280 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1847, and contains a marble reredos, and several stained glass memorial windows; schools were erected in 1851, and enlarged in 1879 and in 1884. A cemetery of 14 acres with three mortuary chapels was laid out at a cost of £14,000 in 1891, and is managed by a committee of the local board.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online: