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UNSWORTH, a chapelry, with three hamlets, in Prestwich parish, Lancashire; 2½ miles SSE of Bury r. station. It has a post-office under Bury, and a fair on the last Monday of July. Pop., about 2,000. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £200. Patron, the Rector of Prestwich. The church was rebuilt in 1842. There are three dissenting chapels, and an endowed school with £20 a year.

John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)

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• St George, Hollins Lane, Church of England

• Primitive Methodist

• Hillock Lane, Wesleyan Methodist
• Hollins Lane, Wesleyan Methodist

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• St George, Hollins Lane, Church of England

• Primitive Methodist

• Hillock Lane, Wesleyan Methodist
• Hollins Lane, Wesleyan Methodist

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