A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
WUERDLE-WITH-WARDLE, a township in Rochdale parish, Lancashire; on the Rochdale canal and the Manchester and Leeds railway, 2 miles NE of Rochdale. It contains Small bridge and Wardle villages, with post-offices under Rochdale, Hamer village suburban to Rochdale, and one or two other villages; includes Smallbridge and Wardle chapelries; carries on cotton manufacture in numerous mills; and has two churches, five dissenting chapels, and two national schools. Real property, £26,308; of which £3,036 are in mines, and £150 in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 7,855; in 1861,8,201. Houses, 1,720.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Wuerdle |
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