| Butterworth | |||||||
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&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Boundary_marker_between_Butterworth_and_Crompton.jpg) A boundary stone on the A663 road, marking the ancient border between Butterworth and Crompton | |||||||
&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:ButterworthRochdaleAncientParish.png) Butterworth shown within the parish of Rochdale | |||||||
| Area | |||||||
| • 1871 | 7,766 acres (31.43 km2) | ||||||
| • 1891 | 7,766 acres (31.43 km2) | ||||||
| Population | |||||||
| • 1841 | 5,648 | ||||||
| • 1891 | 9,352 | ||||||
| History | |||||||
| • Created | Middle Ages | ||||||
| • Abolished | 1894 | ||||||
| Status | Township (1148–1894) & Civil Parish (1866–1894) | ||||||
| • Units | Butterworth Freehold, Butterworth Lordship | ||||||
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Butterworth was a township occupying the southeastern part of the parish of Rochdale, in the hundred of Salford, Lancashire, England.[1] It encompassed 12.1 square miles (31 km2) of land in the South Pennines which spanned the settlements of Belfield, Bleaked-gate-cum-Roughbank, Butterworth Hall, Clegg, Haughs, Hollingworth, Kitcliffe, Lowhouse, Milnrow, Newhey, Ogden, Rakewood, Smithy Bridge, Tunshill and Wildhouse. It extended to the borders of Crompton to the south, and to the highest points of Bleakedgate Moor and Clegg Moor, up to the ridge of Blackstone Edge, to the east, where its boundary was the old county boundary between Lancashire and Yorkshire.[2]
Butterworth was probably settled in Saxon times in the Early Middle Ages. Its land was divided into two divisions, the Lordship side with rents or services payable to the lord of the manor and the Freehold side that retained its importance until 1879 as a Registration district for births, deaths and marriages.[3] In 1830, Butterworth was recorded to have 5,554 inhabitants.[4]
- ^ "Butterworth CP/Tn". A vision of Britain through time.
- ^ Edward Baines The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancashire, Vol 1 (George Routledge, London) 1868. Baines cites in full, at p489, an Inquisition of 1610 detailing the exact boundaries of Butterworth. See also a brief outline in Clegg's Directory of Rochdale, 1899/1900 ed, Milnrow & Newhey section, p233
- ^ Clegg's Directory above, 1879 ed, entry for James Barnes, p155. The registrar for the Lordship side was then described as Registrar for Milnrow See also 'Townships: Butterworth', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5
- ^ SALFORD HUNDRED ANCESTRY, ANNALS AND HISTORY Edwin Butterworth, below, recorded 5,648 in 1841