Ashworth, Lancashire
Historical Description
Ashworth, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Middleton parish, Lancashire, on an affluent of the river Roch, 2½ miles from Heywood station on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway. Post town, Rochdale. Acreage, 1021; population, 137. Lord Egerton of Tatton is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £170 with residence. Patron, Lord Egerton. The church is good.
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 | Middleton | |
Hundred | Salford | |
Poor Law union | Bury |
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 Ashworth from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
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