Failsworth
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FAILSWORTH, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Manchester parish and district, Lancashire. The township lies on the Rochdale canal, and near the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 4½ miles NE by E of Manchester; and has a post office under Manchester. Acres, 1,064. Real property, £16,052; of which £450 are in gas-works. Pop. in 1851, 4,433; in 1861, 5,113. Houses, 1,054. The increase of population arose from the erection of cotton mills and manufactories, the enlargement of a foundry, and the facilities afforded for traffic by canal. The chapelry is conterminate with the township; and was constituted in 1844. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £211.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1846. There are four dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, and national schools. The sub-district includes Moston township. Pop., 8,312.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Oldham library.Cemeteries
- Cemetery Rd, Cemetery
- St John, Oldham Road, Church of England
- Laycock Crescent, Jewish Cemetery
- Bethel, Oldham Rd, Methodist New Connexion
- Immaculate Conception, Oldham Rd, Roman Catholic
- St Mary (The Immaculate Conception), Oldham Rd, Roman Catholic
- Dob Lane, Unitarian
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Failsworth.Church History
Church Records
- Holy Family, Lord Lane, Church of England
- Holy Trinity, Oldham Road, Church of England
- St John, Oldham Road, Church of England
- Macedonia, Ashton Rd East, Congregational
- Oldham Rd, Evangelical Christian Centre
- Oldham Rd, Jehovah's Witness
- Lord Lane, Methodist
- Roman Rd, Methodist Independent Fellowship
- Bethel, Oldham Rd, Methodist New Connexion
- Oldham Rd, New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian)
- Thorley St, New Life Church
- Ebenezer, Linwood St, Old Baptist Union
- Zion, Coronation Rd, Old Baptist Union
- Immaculate Conception, Oldham Rd, Roman Catholic
- St Mary (The Immaculate Conception), Clive Rd, Roman Catholic
- St Mary (The Immaculate Conception), Oldham Rd, Roman Catholic
- Oldham Road, SalvationArmy
- Oldham Road, thefaithworks
- Dob Lane, Unitarian
- Oldham Rd (Wellington St), Wesleyan Methodist
- Woodhouses, Wesleyan Methodist
- Hope, Oldham Rd (Wellington St), Wesleyan Methodist
- Hope, Wrigley Head, Wesleyan Methodist
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Civil Registration
The Register Office covering the Failsworth area is Oldham.Gazetteers
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In 1835 Failsworth was a township in the parish of Manchester.Information about boundaries and administrative areas is available from A Vision of Britain through time.