List of Chapelries within Middleton Parish

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Here is a List of Chapelries lying within the civil parish boundaries of Middleton Parish:


 * Ainsworth - 1727
 * Ashworth - 1735
 * Birch - 1829
 * Birtle - 1846
 * Great Lever - 1802

MIDDLETON St. Leonard, a market-town and a parish, in the hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire; containing, with the chapelries of Ainsworth and Ashworth, and the townships of Birtle cum Bamford, Hopwood, Great Lever, Pilsworth, and Thornham, is 6 miles north by northeast from Manchester. At Ainsworth, Ashworth, Birch, and Birtle are separate incumbencies [churches or chapelries]. There are places of worship for Independents, Primitive Methodists, Wesleyans, the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, and Swedenborgians.