ROCHDALE (ANCIENT PARISH)

'Rochdale', or officially 'Rochdale St. Chad', existed during the 19th century as an ancient parish which spanned both the the Salfordshire hundred of Lancashire, and the Agbrigg wapentake of Yorkshire, in northern England.^[1]
It was recorded in the Domesday Book as ''"Recedham"'', and later in 1242 as ''"Rachedale"''.^[2]

Contents

Townships and chapelries

See also

References

Townships and chapelries

For many years, Rochdale comprised of several townships:

★ Castleton

★ Spotland

★ Butterworth

★
★ included the chapelry of Milnrow

★ Hundersfield

★ Wuerdle and Wardle

★ Wardleworth

★ Blatchinworth and Calderbrook

★ Todmorden

★ Walsden
Rochdale also included the chapelry of Saddleworth from the then county of Yorkshire.

See also

★ Manchester (ancient parish)

★ Prestwich-cum-Oldham

References

1. A vision of Rochdale AP/CP A Vision of Britain through Time
2. The parish of Rochdale Victoria County History

'The parish of Rochdale', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5 (1911), pp. 187-201. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=53027&strquery=rochdale. Date accessed: 03 June 2007.