Gorton
GORTON, a township and a chapelry in Manchester parish, Lancashire. The township
lies on the Manchester and Sheffield railway, and on the Stourport canal, 3 miles
ESE of Manchester; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under
Manchester. Acres, 1,429. Real property, £23,030; of which £332
are in gas-works. Pop. in 1851, 4,476; in 1861, 9,897. Houses, 1,813. The increase
of pop. arose from the establishment of railway works, and the erection of a cotton
mill. There are hat manufactories, chemical works, gum-works, a tan-yard, and a
stained paper manufactory. A city gaol of Manchester was erected here in 1856; and a
zoological garden is maintained in connexion with the Bellevue inn. The railway here
passes 20 feet under the canal. There is a reservoir, of upwards of 70 acres,
belonging to the Manchester water-works. The chapelry was constituted in 1854, and
curtailed in 1865. Pop. in 1861, 7,017; in 1866, 2,490. The living is a rectory in the
diocese of Manchester. Value, £150. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Manchester. The
church is a brick edifice in the Doric style. There are places of worship for
Independents, Baptists, Wesleyans, and Unitarians, a national school, and an
excellent boarding school.
John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Local studies information is held at
Manchester central library.
Details about the census records, and indexes for Gorton.
The Monastery of St Francis and Gorton Trust
has been formed to help preserve this splendid building.
- Mount Olivet, Mount Rd, Apostolic Church
- Trinity, Wellington St, Baptist
- Birch St, Baptist, West Gorton
- St George the Martyr, Abbey Hey Lane, Church of England, Abbey Hey
- All Saints, Blackwin Street, Church of England
- Emmanuel, Blackwin St, Church of England
- Our Lady of Mercy and St Thomas of Canterbury, Mount Rd, Church of England
- St James (formerly St Thomas), Church Lane/Cambert Lane, Church of England
- St Mark, Clowes Street, Church of England
- St Philip, Brookhurst Rd, Church of England
- St Thomas, Gorton Lane, Church of England
- Church Lane/Cambert Lane, Congregational
- Hyde Road, Evangelical
- Calvary, Cross Lane, Family Church
- Highmead St, Gospel Hall
- Abbey Hey Lane, Methodist, Abbey Hey
- Crossley Street formerly Napier St, Primitive Methodist
- Napier Street formerly Saighton St, Primitive Methodist
- Wellington St, Primitive Methodist
- Gorton Brook, Gorton Lane, Primitive Methodist
- Sacred Heart, Levenshulme Road, Roman Catholic
- St Francis of Assisi (Gorton Monastery), Ellenbrook Close, Roman Catholic
- Clowes Street, Union Baptist, West Gorton
- Brookfield Church, Hyde Road, Unitarian
- Gore St, United Methodist Free Church
- Hyde Road, United Methodist Free Church
- Mission, Harrop St, Wesleyan Methodist, Abbey Hey
- Cross Lane, Wesleyan Methodist
- Hyde Road, Wesleyan Methodist, West Gorton
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The Register Office covering the Gorton area is
Manchester.
Names extracted from the
Manchester & Salford Trades Directory, 1832.
Ask for the gazetteer for a calculation of the distance from Gorton to another place.
In 1835 Gorton was a township in the parish of
Manchester.
Information about
boundaries and administrative areas is available from
A Vision of Britain through time.
A description of
Gorton in the 19th century.
Details of the
history of Gorton
are provided by the
Gorton and Openshaw Local history group.
View maps of Gorton and places within its boundaries.
A list of
traders in Cross Street in the 1940s.
Crossley Brothers built cars in Gorton.
For probate purposes prior to 1858, Gorton was in the Archdeaconry of Chester, in the Diocese of Chester.
The original Lancashire wills for the Archdeaconry of Chester are held at the
Lancashire Record Office.
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