Stretford
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STRETFORD, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district, on the S border of Lancashire. The township lies on the Manchester and Altrincham railway, 4 miles SW of Manchester; is in Manchester parish; includes Old Trafford chapelry; contains many handsome villa residences, a public hall, a temperance institute, the Manchester botanic garden, the asylum for the blind, the school for the deaf and dumb, two churches, five dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel of 1864, and a large national school; and has a r. station with telegraph, and a post-office, designated Stretford, Lancashire. Acres, 3,140. Real property, £42,938; of which £500 are in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 4,998; in 1861, 8,757. Houses, 1,668. The chapelry was constituted in 1854. Pop., 3,882. Houses, 791. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £405.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of M. The church was rebuilt in 1841. The sub-district comprises S. township and Flixton parish, and is in Barton-upon-Irwell district. Acres, 5,689. Pop., 10,807. Houses, 2,077.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Trafford Local studies library.Cemeteries
- Lime Rd, Cemetery
- St Thomas, Stretford Rd, Church of England, Old Trafford
- St Matthew, Chester Road, Church of England
- Barton Road, Independent Methodist
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Stretford.Church History
Church Records
- Edge Lane, Baptist
- The Bethel, Henrietta St, Christadelphian, Old Trafford
- Gospel Hall, Derbyshire Lane, Christian Brethren
- Barton Road, Christian Life Centre
- St Francis, Edge Lane, Christian Spiritualist
- St Peter, Gorse Hill, Church of England, Firswood
- St Bride, Bair St, off Shrewsbury Street, Church of England, Old Trafford
- St Cuthbert, Third Avenue, Church of England, Old Trafford
- St Hilda, Warwick Road South, Church of England, Old Trafford
- St John the Evangelist, Ayres Road, Church of England, Old Trafford
- St Thomas, Stretford Rd, Church of England, Old Trafford
- All Saints, Barton Road, Church of England
- All Saints, Cyprus St, Church of England
- St Matthew, Chester Road, Church of England
- Chorlton Road, Congregational, Old Trafford
- Chester Road, Congregational
- Edge Lane, Exclusive Brethren
- Barton Road, Independent Methodist
- Chester Rd, Latter Day Saints
- Park Rd, Martin Luther Kirche
- Sevenways, Derbyshire Lane, Methodist
- St Bartholomew, Barton Rd, Lostock, Presbyterian, Davyhulme
- Third Avenue, Primitive Methodist, Old Trafford
- Bethel, Henrietta St, Primitive Methodist, Old Trafford
- Chorley Road, Primitive Methodist
- King Street, Primitive Methodist
- St Alphonsus, Powell Street, Roman Catholic, Old Trafford
- St Lawrence, Malvern Street, Roman Catholic, Old Trafford
- St Ann, Chester Road, Roman Catholic
- St Hugh of Lincoln, Glastonbury Road, Roman Catholic
- St Teresa, Bedford Road, Roman Catholic
- St Antony of Padua, Eleventh Street, Roman Catholic, Trafford Park
- Brunswick St, Salvation Army
- Moss Side, Shewsbury Street, Unitarian, Old Trafford
- City Road, Wesleyan Methodist, Old Trafford
- Edge Lane formerly Chester Rd, Wesleyan Methodist
- Union Chapel, Edge Lane, Wesleyan Methodist
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