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The Ancient Parish of ROCHDALE

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"ROCHDALE, a parish in the county of Lancashire, and additionally placed in the Genuki Yorkshire pages so as to hold the places within its boundaries which are actually in the old West Riding of Yorkshire."

Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.

Austerlands Bakestone Delf Bank Top Bleak Hey Nook Boarhurst Bottoms Brook Bottom Calf Hey Care Care Hill Castleshaw Causey Side Cherry Clough Clough Cross Deanshaw Delph Denshaw Diggle Dobcross Doctor Houses Dowe Fair Banks Fernlee Friarmere Goburn Clough Grange Grasscroft

Greenfield Grove Harrop Green Heathfields Heights Chapel Hey Chapel High Moor Hollin Bank Hollin Grove Hollins Husteads Junction Lane Head Linfitts Lydgate Mantle Yate New Delph New Houses New Tame Oak View Mill Old Hey Old Tame Pob Green Primrose Quick Roebuck Low Running Hill Head Saddleworth

Saddleworth Church Saddleworth Fold Sandbed Shaw Hall Shaws Shelderslow Skelderslow Slades Barn Stone Breaks Tame Water Thurston Clough Thurstones Todmorden Top O' Th' Meadows Tunnel Mouth Tunstead Turflane Uppermill Wall Hill Warwick Hill Waterhead Mill Weekey Wellihole White Lee Wood Brook Wool Road Wright's Grove

Churches

• Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the Yorkshire part of the parish. Please note that the churches in the Todmorden area that were in Halifax parish are included here:
  • Christ Church, Friezland (view 1).
  • Christ Church, Friezland (view 2).
  • Christ Church, Denshaw.
  • Wrigley Mill Methodist Church, Diggle.
  • The Methodist Church, Delph.
  • Holy Trinity Church, Dobcross.
  • The Methodist Church, Uppermill.
  • The Ebenezer Congregational Church, Uppermill.
  • The Roman Catholic Church, Uppermill.
  • St Chad's Church, Pobgreen (showing the location).
  • St Chad's Church, Pob Green. This is Saddleworth Church.
  • St. Thomas's Church, Friarmere. This church was formerly known as the Mission Church of St Hilda's in Delph. It was re-dedicated to St Thomas when the original St Thomas's (also known as Heights Chapel) was de-consecrated. The 'real' St Thomas's Friarmere dominated the skyline over Castleshaw valley. [Ian Douthwaite, 2003]
  • St. Anne's Church, Lydgate.
  • St. Mary's Church, Todmorden.
  • Christ Church (now disused), Todmorden (the church was for sale when the photo was taken in the summer of 2001).
  • Christ Church churchyard, Todmorden.
  • The Central Methodist Church, Todmorden.
    • The Central Methodist Church, Ground Floor Meeting Room.
    • The Central Methodist Church, Upper Floor Meeting Room (still sometimes used).
  • Roomfield Baptist Church, Todmorden.
  • The Unitarian Church, Todmorden (view 1).
  • The Unitarian Church, Todmorden (view 2).
  • St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Todmorden.
  • The ex-Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Shade, built in 1848. (now a block of flats).
  • The Baptist Church, Vale.
  • St. Mary's Church, Greenfield.
  • The Methodist Church, Greenfield.
  • ex Independent Chapel, Clough Foot, built in 1854 used until 1991, now a private house.
  • St. Michael and All Angels' Church, Cornholme.
  • The ex-chapel, Cornholme. Can you identify this - denomination, date of opening, closing etc?
  • St. Paul's Church, Cross Stone (now a house). For more information on this Church please see the Todmorden and Walsden web-site.
  • The ex Parish Church of St. Paul, Cross Stone. This building was, for most of its life the Church Day School for St Pauls, Cross Stone (but had ceased to be this I guess early in the 19th century) when it became the parish centre for that parish - excellent rooms for drama and youth work (I used it for a Senior School from Halifax camp in 1966!) Part was sub let to a joinery firm. Then when St Paul's Church was declared redundant this 'Sunday School' was converted into a church and served as the Parish Church of St. Paul's, Cross Stone. Then when places of worship in Todmorden were 'rationalised' this church was declared redundant and was snapped up by a firm of funeral directors who renamed it 'The Old School Chapel, Priestwell'. Parishioners always knew it as "Priestwell". [Leslie Greenwood, May 2004].
• Information on the following is to be found on the Todmorden and Walsden website:
  • The Independent Chapel, Cloughfoot.
  • Wellington Road Baptist Chapel, Todmorden
• The following Churches have their own websites:
  • St. Mary's Church, Todmorden

Church Records

• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Dob Cross.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Friarmere.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Lydgate.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Rochdale.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Saddleworth.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Todmorden.
• The registers of St. Mary's and Christ Church,Todmorden are combined. Between 1865 and 1992 it is almost impossible to determine from the registers at which of the two churches an event occured.
• The marriage registers for 1899-1959 for Roomfield Baptist Church, Todmorden are held at the West Yorkshire Archives, Halifax.
• Some extracts from the parish records are to be found on the Todmorden and Walsden web-site. Registers of births for Wainsgate Baptist Chapel, Hebden Bridge, 1745 to 1837 are held at West Yorks (Calderdale) Archives in Halifax.
• A transcription of the list of Donations in Dobcross church.

Directories

• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Baines's Directory and Gazetteer Directory of 1822.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Pigot's Directory of 1829.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Pigot's Directory of 1834.

Gazetteers

• There is further information about this parish from Pigot's 1829 Directory Yorkshire section.
• There is further information about this parish from Pigot's 1834 Directory Yorkshire section.
• There is further information about this parish from National Gazetteer 1868 Yorkshire extracts.

History

• Historical information for the people, mills and mines for the Todmorden and Walsden area can be found on the excellent web-site maintained by Dorothy Hargreaves and Linda Briggs.

Maps

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• For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
• For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
• Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
• View maps of Rochdale and places within the boundaries of its ancient parish.

Memorial Inscriptions

• A transcription of the War Memorial at Cornholme.
• A transcription of the War Memorial at Denshaw in the churchyard.

Names (Geographical)

• The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
  • (SD962080) Bishop Park
  • (SD995102) Broadhead Noddle
  • (SD969028) Brook Bottom
  • (SD904262) Cornholme
  • (SD990082) Dale
  • (SD985086) Delph Greave
  • (SD968094) Grains Bar
  • (SD969045) Grotton
  • (SD972049) Grotton Hall
  • (SD977076) Hill Top
  • (SD969035) Holly Bank
  • (SD994075) Lark Hill
  • (SD969032) Quick Edge
  • (SD959057) Scouthead
  • (SD971093) Slackcote
  • (SD959045) Springhead
  • (SD983057) Wade Hill
  • (SD975027) Woodend

Societies

• This parish is covered (or partly covered) by the following Societies:
  • Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society
  • Saddleworth Historical Society.