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 chapelries attached to this ancient parish:


 * Rochdale St Chad with St Mary - 1592*
 * Butterworth Milnrow - 1726
 * Dobcross - 1787
 * Friarmere - 1767
 * Friezeland - 1849
 * Healey - 1847
 * Lees - 1743 (partly also in the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne)
 * Littleborough - 1741
 * Lydgate St Marys - 1788
 * Saddleworth - 1612
 * Smallbridge - 1834
 * Spotland St Clement - 1835
 * Todmorden - 1625
 * Todmorden Christ Church - 1832
 * Tunstead - 1840
 * Walsden - 1845
 * Wardleworth St James - 1821
 * Whitworth - 1753

Helpful Links:

Some of Preston's chapelry registers have also been indexed and posted online at the Lancashire "Online Parish Clerk" project.

The website, "A Church Near You" provides some information on some chapelries (and parishes): www.achurchnearyou.com

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)