Prestwich-cum-Oldham
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Prestwich-cum-Oldham (also known as Prestwich with Oldham) was an ancient parish of the Hundred of Salford, in the historic borders of Lancashire, England, and an ecclesiastical division of the extensive Diocese of Lichfield. With the township of Prestwich as its centre, this Anglican parish originally encompassed a total of ten townships, and several smaller chapelries.
Prestwich-cum-Oldham stretched from the modern-day towns of Prestwich through parts of Middleton to Oldham. The parish covered some 21,625 acres and was noted in 1851 to have a population of 94,470, and again in 1861, to have 117,961. [1]
Prestwich-cum-Oldham is of much significance to modern day genealogists tracing ancestral roots to the south Lancashire area, as Church records and many of the original England and Wales Census transcripts both refer to and are categorised according to the ecclesiastical boundary of the parish.
[edit] Townships
Prestwich-cum-Oldham included the following ten historic townships:
- Alkrington
- Chadderton
- Crompton
- Great Heaton
- Little Heaton
- Oldham
- Pilkington
- Prestwich
- Royton
- Tonge
[edit] Chapelries
Prestwich-cum-Oldham also included the following chapelries/thesections:
- Coldhurst
- East Crompton
- Glodwick
- High Crompton
- Hollinwood
- Outwood
- Prestolee
- Ringley
- Shaw
- Sholver
- Unsworth
- Werneth
- Whitefield
[edit] Daughter parishes
Prestwich-cum-Oldham was split into some forty-one daughter parishes, many of which can be found at The Prestwich Guide - History.
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