GENUKI Contents

Lancashire

Nearby places

Archives and libraries Cemeteries Census Church History Church Records Civil Registration

Gazetteers Historical Geography History Maps Probate Records

ROYTON, a large village, a township-chapelry, and a sub-district, in Oldham district, Lancashire. The village stands at the terminus of the Manchester, Oldham, and Royton railway, near the junction with it of the Oldham and Rochdale railway, 2 miles N N W of Oldham; is a place of some antiquity and note; numbers among its natives the mathematicians Butterworth and Kay, and the botanist Mellor; carries on industry in large cotton factories; and has a post-office under Oldham, a railway station with telegraph, another r. station at R. r. junction, a police station, a public-bath, a church, three dis-senting chapels, a national school, and several libraries, improvement societies, and other insituations. The chapelry comprises 1,352 acres, and is in Prestwich parish, and within Oldham borough. Real property, £20,566; of which £628 are in mines, and £220 in gas-works. Pop. in 1851, 6,974; in 1861, 7,493. Houses, 1,562. The property is not much divided. R. Hall was given, by Edward II., to Sir John de Byron; belongs now, to Sir J. Radcliffe, Bart., the chief landed proprietor; and has been divided into tenements. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £300.* Patron, the Rector of Prestwich. The sub-district contains also the township of Thornham, and comprises 3,350 acres. Pop. in 1851, 8,484; in 1861, 9,520. Houses, 1,941.

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

Archives and libraries

Cemeteries

• Cemetery Rd, Cemetery

• St Paul, Church St, Church of England

• Turf Lane, Society of Friends, Heyside

Census

Church History

Church Records

• Oldham Road, Baptist

• St Mark, Perth St, Church of England, Heyside
• All Saints, Rochdale Lane, Church of England
• St Anne, St Anne's Ave, Longsight, Church of England
• St Paul, Church St, Church of England

• Hebron St, Congregational, Heyside
• Middleton Rd, Congregational

• Independent Methodist

• St John, Market Street, Methodist
• Trinity, Radcliffe St, Methodist

• Bethesda, Rochdale Rd, Particular Baptist

• Oldham Road, Primitive Methodist
• Zion, Fir Lane, Primitive Methodist

• St Aidan and St Oswald, Vaughan Street, Roman Catholic

• Spring Garden St, Salvation Army

• Turf Lane, Society of Friends, Heyside

• Shaw Rd, United Methodist Free Church, Higginshaw

• Edge Lane Road formerly Lawson St, Wesleyan Methodist, Higginshaw
• Manchester Rd, Wesleyan Methodist, Luzley Brook
• St John, Chapel St, Wesleyan Methodist
• St John, Market Street, Wesleyan Methodist

You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Royton area that are recorded in the GENUKI church database. This will also help identify churches in nearby townships and/or parishes. You also have the option to see the location of the churches marked marked on a map.

If you keep this page loaded for a very long time and the database is updated since loading it, the church links above may become stale and may display the wrong church. If this happens, reloading this page will correct them.

Civil Registration

Gazetteers

Historical Geography

History

Maps

Probate Records

Find help, report problems, and contribute information.