Dobcross, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Dobcross is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1797 from Rochdale Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Dobcross and Lydgate, Rochdale Holy Trinity, Dobcross Delph
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1787
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
DOBCROSS, a village and a chapelry in Saddleworth-with-Quick township, Rochdale parish, W. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands adjacent to the Huddersfield canal and the Sheffield and Manchester railway, near Saddleworth r. station, and 6½ miles NE of Ashton-under-Lyne; and has a post office under Manchester, and a banking office. Markets are held on Wednesdays; and fairs on the second Thursday of March and the last Thursday of July.
The chapelry was constituted in 1844. Pop., 1,972. Houses, 418. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £200. Patron, the Vicar of Rochdale. The church is plain.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Church Records
Parish register printouts of Dobcross, Yorkshire, England : christenings, 1787-1790
Maps
Vision of Britain historical maps
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Saddleworth
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
- Diocese: Manchester
- Rural Deanery: Ashton Under Lyne
- Poor Law Union: Rochdale
- Hundred: Agbrigg
- Province: York