Ardwick
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ARDWICK, a township, three chapelries, and a subdistrict in Manchester parish, Lancashire. The township is suburban to Manchester city, on the SE; and lies within the borough boundaries. Acres, 470. Real property, £57,895. Pop., 21,757. Houses, 4,414. The Manchester and Sheffield railway has a station here, ¾ of a mile from the terminus; joins here the Manchester and Birmingham railway near Chancery lane; and is carried here on a succession of immense viaducts. The chapelries are Ardwick - St. Thomas, Ardwick St. Silas, and Ardwick St. Matthew; and were constituted in respectively 1838, 1844, and 1868. Pop. of A. St. T., 10,147. Houses, 2,029. Pop. of A. St. S., 10,375. Houses, 2,143. The livings are rectories in the diocese of Manchester. Value of St. E. and St. S., each £300; of St. M., not reported. Patrons of St. T., the Dean and Chapter of Manchester, of St. S. and St. M., Trustees. The subdistrict includes also four other townships, and is in Chorlton district. Acres, 4,031. Pop., 47,752. Houses, 9,322.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Manchester central library.Cemeteries
- Ardwick Cemetery, Devonshire Street, Cemetery
- St Thomas, Ardwick Green, Church of England
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Ardwick.Church History
Church Records
- St Benedict, Bennett Street, Church of England
- St Jerome, Baden Street, Church of England
- St Matthew, Hyde Road, Church of England
- St Silas, Ashton Old Road, Church of England
- St Thomas, Ardwick Green, Church of England
- The Good Shepherd Church of the Resurrection, Ranworth Close, Church of England
- Tipping St, Congregational
- Indigo St, Pin Mill Brow, Independent
- Union Street, Presbyterian
- Grey St, Primitive Methodist
- Higher Ardwick, Primitive Methodist
- Hyde Rd, Primitive Methodist
- Ogden St, Primitive Methodist
- St Aloysius, Palfrey Place, Roman Catholic
- Longsight Spiritualist Hall, Grey St, Spiritualist
- Hyde Rd, United Methodist Free Church
- Higher Ardwick, Welsh Calvinist Methodist
- School Mission, Chancery Lane, Wesleyan Methodist
- School Mission, Rylance St, Wesleyan Methodist
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