Milnrow, Lancashire
Historical Description
Milnrow, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Butterworth township, Rochdale parish, Lancashire. The village stands on the river Beal, near the Rochdale Canal and the Oldham and Rochdale branch of the L. & Y.R., 2 miles ESE of Rochdale; is a seat of extensive manufacture, doing large business in the woollen trade and cotton spinning; and has a station on the railway and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Rochdale. John Collier, better known as " Tim Bobbin," author of poems in the Lancashire dialect, was for fifty-seven years a schoolmaster in the village; and the Rev. Canon Raines, distinguished for antiquarian knowledge and research, has thrown lustre upon it. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 5074. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £415 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Rochdale. The church was rebuilt in a handsome manner in 1869 on the site of an older structure. There are several dissenting chapels and schools, Conservative and Reform clubs, a working-men's club, and two banks.
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 | Rochdale | |
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 Milnrow from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Milnrow 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: