Comprehensive List of Rochdale Chapelries

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St Chad is an ancient* parish and one of the larger towns in Lancashire. It possesses numerous townships with their respective chapels or chapelries associated within it. Here is a comprehensive list of townships with chapelries attached to this ancient parish:


 * - 1592*
 * {{FHL|414400|title-id|disp=Rochdale St Mary (Baum Chapel) - 1742 burials
 * {{FHL|251325|title-id|dusp=Butterworth Milnrow}} - 1726
 * {{FHL|500703|subject-id|disp=Dobcross}} - 1787
 * {{FHL|500700|subject-id|disp=Friarmere}} - 1767
 * {{FHL|589094|title-id|disp=Friezeland}} - 1849
 * {{FHL|1147026|title-id|disp=Healey}} - 1847
 * {{FHL|838997|title-id|disp=Lees}} - 1743 (partly also in the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne)
 * {{FHL|404183|title-id|disp=Littleborough}} - 1741
 * {{FHL|500701|subject-id|disp=Lydgate St Marys}} - 1788
 * {{FHL|386932|subject-id|disp=Saddleworth}} - 1612
 * {{FHL|404226|title-id|disp=Smallbridge}} - 1834
 * {{FHL|534779|subject-id|disp=Spotland St Clement}} - 1835
 * {{FHL|343653|subject-id|disp=Todmorden}} - 1625
 * {{FHL|1548656|title-id|disp=Todmorden Christ Church}} - 1832
 * {{FHL|1147368|title-id|disp=Tunstead}} - 1840
 * {{FHL|758532|title-id|disp=Walsden}} - 1845
 * {{FHL|496251|title-id|disp=Wardleworth St James}} - 1821
 * Wardle with Wuerdle St John (see Smallbridge)
 * Wardleworth St Mary the Baum – 1747 LRO
 * {{FHL|534777|subject-id|disp=Whitworth}} - 1753

Helpful Links:


 * Newspaper index at Rochdale Local Studies Library is onine, 1856 to the twentieth century.
 * The website, "A Church Near You" provides some information on some chapelries (and parishes)

Bibliography:

Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, by Youngs, Frederic A. Pub: The Royal Historical Society, London 1991

Topographical Dictionary of England, Lewis Samuel. Pub: Samuel A. Lewis &amp; Co. London 1841

A Comprehensive Gazetteer of England, by Bell, James. A. Pub.: Fullarton &amp; Co. Glasgow 1836

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, by A. Fullarton &amp; Co. Glasgow and London ca. 1869 (see www.visionofBritain.org.uk)