Droylsden
DROYLSDEN, a township-chapelry in Manchester parish, Lancashire; on the Rochdale canal and the Manchester and Sheffield railway, 4 miles E of Manchester. It includes the hamlet of Little Droylsden, and the villages of Fairfield and Clayton; and it has a station on the railway, and a post office under Manchester. Acres, 1,611. Real property, £25,121. Pop., 8,798. Houses, 1,718. The property is subdivided. Many of the inhabitants are employed in cotton factories. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £130. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1848; an Independent chapel, in 1860; a Wesleyan chapel, in 1866; and there are Moravian and P. Methodist chapels, and British schools.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Tameside local studies library.Cemeteries
- Manor Rd, Cemetery
- St Cross, Ashton New Road, Church of England, Clayton
- St Mary, Market Street, Church of England
- Fairfield Square, Moravian, Fairfield
- Trinity, Market St, Wesleyan Methodist
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Droylesden.Church History
Fairfield Moravian SettlementSt. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church.
Church Records
- World Harvest, Seymour Rd South, Christian Centre, Clayton
- St Cross, Ashton New Road, Church of England, Clayton
- St Cuthbert, Berry Brow, Church of England, Clayton
- St Andrew, Edge Lane, Church of England
- St John, Moorside Street, Church of England
- St Martin, Greenside Lane, Church of England
- St Mary, Market Street, Church of England
- Seymour Rd South, Congregational, Clayton
- Fairfield Road, Congregational
- Ashton Hill Lane, Independent
- Carver Hall, Bamford St, Manchster City Mission, Clayton
- Fairfield Square, Moravian, Fairfield
- Bethel, Ashton New Road, Primitive Methodist, Clayton
- Market St, Primitive Methodist
- St Willibrord, North Road, Roman Catholic, Clayton
- St Stephen, Chappell Road, Roman Catholic
- Greenside Lane, SalvationArmy
- North Road, United Methodist Free Church, Clayton
- Wesleyan Methodist
- Edge Lane, Wesleyan Methodist
- Moorside Street, Wesleyan Methodist
- Trinity, Manchester Road, Wesleyan Methodist
- Trinity, Market St, Wesleyan Methodist
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