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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"CROMPTON, a township in the parish of Prestwich, hundred of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, 3½ miles N. of Oldham. It contains the villages of Cowlishall, High Crompton, and Shaw. Part of the land is moorland, but the township is densely populated. The inhabitants are employed in the collieries and cotton-mills. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester, value £150, in the patronage of the crown and bishop alternately. The church is a modern building. Crompton Hail is in ruins. Lord Lyttelton has a seat here."