Rusholme or Rushulme, Lancashire
Historical Description
Rusholme or Rushulme, a township in Manchester parish, Lancashire, and a suburb of Manchester, 2¼ miles S by E of Manchester, and half a mile from Longsight station on the L. & N.W.R. Acreage, including Birch, 974; population, 10,696. Rusholme House and Rusholme Park are chief residences. The living of Holy Trinity is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £430 with residence. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 4094. Birch-in-Rusholme is a separate ecclesiastical parish, constituted in 1854. Population, 2267. Birch St Agnes was formed out of it in 1886. Population, 2036. The livings are both rectories in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £650 with residence and £335 respectively. Patron of the latter, the Bishop. There are several nonconformist chapels.
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 | Manchester | |
Hundred | Salford | |
Poor Law union | Chorlton |
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 Rusholme or Rushulme from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Rusholme or Rushulme 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: