Middleton
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MIDDLETON, a town, a township, a sub-district, and a parish, in Lancashire. The town stands in a fertile vale, on the river Irk, at the terminus of a short branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, near the Rochdale canal, 6 miles N by E of Manchester; took its name from being situated in the centre of several circumjacent towns; was only a village of 20 houses in 1770; has risen, since 1780, into a populous seat of manufacture; is now an important place, nearly a mile in length, well supplied with water, thoroughly drained, and under the management of a local improvement board by act of 1861; is so conjoined with Tonge in both proximity and trade as practically to include or absorb that town; carries on industry in extensive silk factories, in numerous large cotton factories, in calico-printing, bleaching, and dyeing establishments, in iron foundries, and in machinemaking establishments; publishes a weekly newspaper; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a post office under Manchester, a railway station with telegraph, several good inns, a police station, a market-house, public baths, two churches, five dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chape1, a grammar school, two national and infant schools, a free library, a church reading-room and library, an agricultural society, and a floral and horticultural society.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72) more ...
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Middleton library.Cemeteries
- Boarshaw Road, Cemetery
- St Leonard, St Leonard's Square, Church of England
- St Gabriel, Greenhill Rd, Church of England, Middleton Junction
- All Saints, Manchester Old Road, Church of England, Rhodes
- Lees St, Wesleyan Methodist, Middleton Junction
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Middleton.Church History
Church Records
- Temple Street, Baptist
- St Margaret, Stanycliffe Lane, Church of England, Boarshaw
- St Thomas, Heywood Old Road, Church of England, Bowlee
- All Saints and Martyrs, Wood St, Church of England, Langley
- St Aidan, Millbeck Road, Church of England, Langley
- St Leonard, St Leonard's Square, Church of England
- St Gabriel, Greenhill Rd, Church of England, Middleton Junction
- Holy Trinity, Sunny Brow, Church of England, Parkfield
- All Saints, Manchester Old Road, Church of England, Rhodes
- The River, Martindale Crescent, Community Church, Langley
- Providence, Market Place, Congregational
- Salem, Manchester Rd, Congregational
- St Stephen, High Street, Countess of Huntingdons Connexion
- Hilton Fold Lane, Jehovah's Witness
- Ashton Lane, Latter Day Saints
- Windermere Road, Methodist, Langley
- Grimshaw Lane, Methodist, Middleton Junction
- Green St, Particular Baptist
- Grimshaw Lane, Primitive Methodist, Bowlee
- Heywood Old Road, Primitive Methodist, Bowlee
- Boarshaw Road, Primitive Methodist
- Morton Street, Primitive Methodist
- Jumbo, Primitive Methodist
- Chapel Street, Primitive Methodist, Rhodes
- The Shepherd's House, Long St, Redeemed Christian Church of God
- St Agnes, Whalley Road, Roman Catholic, Hollins
- St Columba, Windermere Road, Roman Catholic, Langley
- Our Lady of the Assumption, Wood Street, Roman Catholic
- St John Fisher, Boarshaw Road, Roman Catholic
- St Peter, Taylor Street, Roman Catholic
- Manchester Old Rd, Swedenborgian
- Wood Street, Swedenborgian
- Egerton Street, Swedenborgian, Rhodes
- Old Road, Unitarian
- Hollin Lane, Hebers, United Methodist Free Church
- Sadler St, United Methodist Free Church
- Holy Innocents, Oldham Rd, Unknown
- Long Street, Wesleyan Methodist
- Wood Street, Wesleyan Methodist
- Lees St, Wesleyan Methodist, Middleton Junction
- Manchester Old Rd, Wesleyan Methodist, Rhodes
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Civil Registration
The Register Offices covering the Middleton area are Rochdale and Oldham.Gazetteers
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In 1835 the parish of Middleton contained the townships of Middleton, Ashworth, Birtle cum Bamford, Great Lever, Ainsworth, Hopwood, Pilsworth and Thornham,Information about boundaries and administrative areas is available from A Vision of Britain through time.