Glodwick, Lancashire Genealogy

England Lancashire  Lancashire Parishes

Chapelry History
Glodwick Christ Church is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created in 1844 from Oldham_St_Peter,_Lancashire Ecclesiastical Parish.

GLODWICK, a district parish, in the parochial chapelry and poor-law union of Oldham, parish of Prestwich, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire, ¾ of a mile (S. E.) from Oldham; containing about 5500 inhabitants. This place, which lies east of the high road from Oldham to Ashton, was formed into a parish under the provisions of the 6th and 7th of Victoria, cap. 37. The living is a perpetual curacy, with an endowment of £150 per annum, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Chester and the Crown, alternately. The church, dedicated to Christ [Church], was built in 1843, on a site given by Earl Howe, and is a cruciform edifice in the early English style.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis (1848), pp. 298-301. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50982 Date accessed: 01 July 2010.

Subsequently a second parish was formed.

Civil Registration
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Probate records
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