Manchester, Lancashire Family History
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Manchester
Manchester The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
Ardwick
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Ardwick, a chapelry to the parish of Manchester, hund. of Salford, union of Chorlton, co.-palatine of Lancaster; 1 mile south from Manchester. Living, a curacy not in charge, in the archd. and dio. of Chester; rated in the parliamentary returns at £138 4s.; gross income, in 1832, £310. In the patronage of the warden and fellows of the collegiate church of Manchester. There are nine daily schools, four boarding schools, and two very large Sunday schools, in this chapelry. This suburb is included in the boundaries of the new borough of Manchester. The Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester railway, joins the Manchester and Birmingham railway near Chancery-lane. It is here carried on a succession of immense viaducts. Pop., in 1801, 1,762; in 1831, 5,524. Houses 1,033. Acres 470. A. P. £11,241. Poor rates, in 1837, £825.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851