Outwood
OUTWOOD, a hamlet, in the chapelry of Ringley, parish of Prestwich, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire, 7 miles (N. W.) from Manchester; containing about 2000 inhabitants. It is situated on the river Irwell; and the Manchester and Bolton canal passes through. The population is employed in collieries, and in cotton and print works. Outwood is the seat of Mark Philips, Esq.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.