Swinton
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SWINTON, a chapelry, with a village, in Eccles parish, Lancashire; near Patricroft r. station, 4½ mile WNW of Manchester. It has a post-office under Manchester. Pop., about 6,000. There are several good residences. Cotton manufacture and brick-making are carried on. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £230.* Patron, the Vicar of Eccles. The church is plain. There are Wesleyan chapels, a national school, and the Manchester industrial schools.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Salford library.Cemeteries
- Cemetery Rd, Cemetery
- St Peter, Partington Lane, Church of England
- Jane Lane, Unitarian
- St Paul, Station Rd, Wesleyan Methodist
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Swinton.Church History
Church Records
- Bethesda Hall, Worsley Rd,
- Holy Rood, Moorside Road, Church of England
- St Peter, Partington Lane, Church of England
- Worsley Rd, Congregational
- Trinity, Jane Lane, Congregational
- Mount Zion, Moorside Road, Independent Methodist
- Partington Lane, Latter Day Saints
- Chorley Road, Primitive Methodist
- Manchester Road, Primitive Methodist
- Wardley Lane, Primitive Methodist
- St Charles, Moorside Road, Roman Catholic
- St Mary, Swinton Hall Rd, Roman Catholic
- St Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Park Street, Roman Catholic
- Moorside Road, Swedenborgian
- Jane Lane, Unitarian
- Worsley Rd, United Methodist Free Church
- Manchester Road, Wesleyan Methodist
- St Paul, Station Rd, Wesleyan Methodist
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