Littleborough, Lancashire
Historical Description
Littleborough, a village and an ecclesiastical parish formed from Rochdale civil parish, Lancashire. The village stands on the river Roch, the Rochdale Canal, the L. & Y.R., and the Roman Road to York, at the foot of Blackstone Edge, 3¼ miles NE of Rochdale; is supposed from its position on the Roman Road, and from the discovery of some Roman antiquities in its neighbourhood, to stand on or near the site of a Roman station. It is a large place sharing in the manufactures of Rochdale, and practically a suburb of that town; and has a railway station and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester. The ecclesiastical parish comprises also Shore and Feathers tall, and Calderbrook. Population, 9655. The district is governed by a local board. Much of the surface is a fine valley, gemmed with mansions and villas. The living is a vicarage, with that of Calderbrook annexed, in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £554 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Rochdale. The church succeeded an ancient one which belonged to "Whalley Abbey, is a modern edifice, and consists of chance], nave, and aisles, with tower and spire; the chancel was added in 1890. There is a chapel of ease at Calderbrook. A Roman Catholic chapel was erected in 1881, and there are also Wesleyan, Primitive, and United Free Methodi&t chapels.
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 | Halifax | |
Hundred | Salford | |
Poor Law union | Rochdale |
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 Littleborough from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Littleborough)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Littleborough 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: