Healey, Lancashire
Historical Description
Healey, a hamlet and an ecclesiastical parish in Spotland township, Rochdale parish, Lancashire, 2 miles NW of Roch-dale, with a station on the L. & Y.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Eochdale. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1846. Population, 2376. There are cotton, flannel, and woollen mills. Healey Hall belonged to the De Healeys, and passed to the Chadwicks. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £340 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1849, stands on a hill, and is a cruciform structure. It is a beautiful structure of the Transition period, and is noted for its series of stained windows, also the oak carving in it.
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 Healey 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: