Prestwich-cum-Oldham

Prestwich-cum-Oldham

Prestwich-cum-Oldham (also known as Prestwich with Oldham) was an ancient parish of the hundred of Salford, within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire, England, and an ecclesiastical division of the extensive Diocese of Lichfield. With the Church of Saint Mary in the township of Prestwich as its centre, this Anglican parish originally encompassed a total of ten townships, and several smaller chapelries.

Prestwich-cum-Oldham, although a singular parish, was divided in to two non-contiguous sections, centred roughly on the modern-day towns of Prestwich and Oldham. The parish of Middleton divided Prestwich-cum-Oldham down the middle. The parish covered some 21,625 acres and was noted in 1851 to have a population of 94,470, and again in 1861, to have 117,961. [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/gaztext_page.jsp?u_id=10376520&c_id=10001043]

Townships

Prestwich-cum-Oldham comprised the following ten historic townships:

*Alkrington
*Chadderton
*Crompton
*Great Heaton
*Little Heaton
*Oldham
*Pilkington
*Prestwich
*Royton
*Tonge

Chapelries

Prestwich-cum-Oldham also included the following chapelries/thesections:

*Coldhurst
*East Crompton
*Glodwick
*High Crompton
*Hollinwood
*Outwood
*Prestolee
*Ringley
*Shaw
*Sholver
*Unsworth
*Werneth
*Whitefield

Daughter parishes

Prestwich-cum-Oldham was split into some forty-one daughter parishes, which can be found at [http://www.bleasdales.eclipse.co.uk/prestwichguide/where/history/stmarys/stmarys.htm The Prestwich Guide - History] .

ee also

*Prestwich (UK Parliament constituency)

External links

* [http://www.mancuniensis.info/Maps/raprp_xs.pdf Map of parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham in the mid 1800's]


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