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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"HARPURHEY, a township in the parish of Manchester, hundred of Salford, county Lancaster, 2½ miles N.E. of Manchester. It is a considerable village, forming a suburb of Manchester. Part of the inhabitants are engaged in the mills for spinning and printing cotton. A church has recently been erected here, the living of which is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester.