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ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, a town, a parish, and a district, on the SE border of Lancashire. The town stands on the river Tame, at a convergence of canals and railways, 6½ miles E by N of Manchester. Its site is a rising-ground, from 30 to 40 feet high, on the N bank of the river; its environs are a low flat tract, reclaimed from the condition of a marsh, overlying rich strata of coal and sandstone, and studded with factories, villages, and mining-shafts; and many parts of both site and environs, previous to the introduction of the cotton trade in 1769, were bare, wet, and almost worthless. Pop. in 1841, 22,678; in 1861, 33,917. Houses, 6,460. The municipal borough includes also part of the parochial division called Audenshaw. Pop. in 1851, 30,676; in 1861, 34,886. Houses, 6,647. Electors in 1868, 967. Direct taxes, £14,798. Real property, £113,703. The parish consists of the four divisions of Ashton Town, Audenshaw, Knott-Lanes, and Hartshead; and includes the hamlets of Lees, Crossbank, Alt, Altedge, Althill, Taunton, Knott-Lanes, Wood-Park, Hazlehurst, Heyrod, Smallshaw, and Hartshead, the villages of Hooleyhill, Walkmill, Audenshaw, Littlemoss, Wood houses, North-Street, Hurst, Hurstbrooks, Mossley, and Mossley-Brow, and part of the town of Stalybridge. Acres, 9,300. Real property, £233,117. Pop. in 1841, 46,304; in 1861, 66,801. Houses, 12,962. The Earl of Stamford has about 2,030 tenants within the manor; and draws from it an income of upwards of £30,000. more...John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
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Ashton-under-Lyne 1832 inc. Dukinfield, Staly-Bridge, Hooley Hill and Neighbourhoods. extracted from Manchester & Salford Trade Directory 1832 by Gay Oliver.
The division of Knott Lanes is bounded on the north
by the parishes of Oldham and Saddleworth; by the
division of Hartshead, in this parish, on the east; and
by the said division, and the division of Audenshaw,
on the south and west.
It is in length from Birks, near Austerland in Saddleworth,
to New Market below Taunton Fold, in the parish of Ashton-u-Lyne, about five
miles: and in it's greatest
breadth, from Boardmans edge to Fitton Hill, about
two miles and a half.
It contained about 1060 acres in 1618.
Taken from James Butterworths, Town and parish
of Ashton-u-lyne,written in November 1823.
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