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Shawforth, Lancashire

Historical Description

Shawforth, a village in Rochdale parish, Lancashire, 4½ miles N of Rochdale, with a station on the L. & Y.R. It has a newsroom, cotton-mills, collieries, a Wesleyan chapel, and a post and money order office under Rochdale; telegraph office, Whitworth.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

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.


Maps

Online maps of Shawforth 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:

DistrictRossendale
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtOL12
Post TownRochdale

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