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Reddish, Lancashire

Historical Description

Reddish, a township and district parish in Lancashire. The township lies near the river Tame at the boundary with Cheshire, 2 miles N by E of Stockport, and has stations on the L. & N.W.R., the M.S. & L.R., and the M.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stockport. Acreage, 1541; population, 6854. It is governed by a district council of twelve members. There are some handsome modern residences, inhabited by manufacturers of the neighbourhood. There are also cotton and doubling mills, print works, gas engine and printers' machine works, twine rope works, and a chemical manufactory. The township is divided into the ecclesiastical parishes of St Mary (Heaton Reddish), constituted in 1865 (population, 2663), and St Elizabeth's, formed in 1884 C4019). The livings are rectories in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £293 and £258 respectively with residence. The church of St Mary was built in 1864, and is in the Decorated English style. St Elizabeth's, in the Norman and Perpendicular styles, was built in 1884 by Sir W. H. Houldsworth, Bart., at a cost of £30,000. Reddish has an institute and library. There is also a mission church, and Roman Catholic and Methodist chapels.

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

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Civil parishManchester 
HundredSalford 
Poor Law unionStockport 

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

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Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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CountyWarrington

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