Reddish
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REDDISH, a township and a chapelry in Manchester parish, Lancashire. The township lies on the Stockport and Staleybridge railway, near the river Tame at the boundary with Cheshire, 2 miles N by E of Stockport; and has a station on the railway . Post-town, Stockport. Acres, 1,541. Real property, £8,444. Pop. in 1851, 1,218; in 1861, 1,363. Houses, 280. There are some handsome modern residences, inhabited by manufacturers of Stockport. There are also three cotton mills, print-works, and a paper manufactory. The chapelry is much more extensive than the township, was constitutedin 1864, and is called Heaton-Reddish. Pop., about 6,000. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £200. Patrons, Trustees. The church was built in 1864, at a cost of £2,500; and is in the decorated English style.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Cemeteries
- Willow Grove Cemetery, Central Drive, Cemetery
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Reddish.Church History
Church Records
- St Agnes, Reddish Lane, Church of England, North Reddish
- St Elisabeth, Leamington Road, Church of England
- St Mary, Reddish Rd, Church of England
- Christ Church, Lillian Grove, Methodist
- St Joseph, Gorton Road, Roman Catholic
- Rupert Street, Spiritualist
- Sandy Lane, Triangle Church
- Christ Church, Lillian Grove, United Reformed
- Broadstone Rd, Wesleyan Methodist
- Aspinal, Reddish Lane, Wesleyan Methodist
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