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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"FAILSWORTH, a township in the parish of Manchester, hundred of Salford, county palatine Lancaster, 4 miles N.E. of Manchester. The Rochdale canal and Lancashire and Yorkshire railway pass in the vicinity. This township has vastly increased in population of late years, and contains many well-built houses, occupied by the merchants and manufacturers of Manchester. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester, value £250, in the patronage of the crown and bishop alternately. There is a National school."