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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"TONGE, a township in the parish of Prestwich, hundred of Salford, county Lancaster, 1 mile S.E. of Middleton, its post town. It is a station on the Manchester and Leeds railway. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the silk mills. The village, with the hamlet of Alkrington, forms an ecclesiastical district, containing in 1861 a population of 5,029. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester, value £150, in the patronage of the Rector of Prestwich. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, was built by aid of the Parliamentary Commissioners in 1839."