Butterworth
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BUTTERWORTH, a township and two subdistricts in Rochdale parish, Lancashire. The township lies on the verge of the county, near the Manchester and Leeds railway, 3 miles E of Rochdale. It includes the hamlets of Clegg, Wildhouse, Belfield, Butterworth Hall, Lowhouse, Haughs, and Bleaked-gate-cum-Roughbank. Real property, £26,906; of which £6,355 are in mines. Pop., 6,704. Houses, 1,332. There are cotton and woollen factories, a church of 1798, dissenting chapels, two endowed schools, and charities £32. The subdistricts are B. Freehold-side and B. Lordship-side; and are jointly conterminate with the township.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Cemeteries
- Ogden, Cedar Lane, Baptist, Newhey
- St Thomas, Church Street, Church of England, Newhey
- Hope Chapel, Lanebottom, Ogden, Particular Baptist
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Butterworth.Church History
Church Records
- Milnrow Rd, Baptist, Newbold
- Ogden, Cedar Lane, Baptist, Newhey
- St Ann, Rochdale Road, Church of England, Belfield
- St Peter, Church Rd, Church of England, Newbold
- St Thomas, Church Street, Church of England, Newhey
- Congregational, Newhey
- Hope Chapel, Lanebottom, Ogden, Particular Baptist
- Huddersfield Road, Primitive Methodist, Newhey
- Sacred Heart, Kingsway, Roman Catholic, Newbold
- United Methodist Free Church, Newhey
- Smithy Bridge Rd, United Methodist Free Church, Smithy Bridge
- Vavasour St, Wesleyan Methodist, Newbold
- Wesleyan Methodist, Newhey
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