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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"DROYLESDEN, a township in the parish of Manchester, hundred of Salford, in the county palatine of Lancaster, 2 miles W. of Ashton-under-Lyne, and 4 E. of Manchester. It has stations on the Manchester and Leeds section of the London and North-Western, and on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railways. It is situated on the Rochdale canal, and contains the hamlets of Little Droylsden, Fairfield, and Clayton. The inhabitants are, for the most part, employed in the cotton factories. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester, value £130, in the patronage of the crown and bishop alternately. The Wesleyan Methodists have a place of worship, and there is a Moravian settlement at Fairfield."