A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
LEVENSHULME, a village, a township, and a parochial chapelry, in Manchester parish, Lancaster. The village stands near the Manchester and Stockport railway, 3 miles SE by S of Manchester; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Manchester. The township comprises 605 acres. Real property, £8,267. Pop. in 1851,1,902; in 1861,2,095. Houses, 421. There are many modern residences of Manchester families, two small cotton mills, and bleaching works.—The chapelry is more extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1861. Pop., 2,538. Houses, 515. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester. Value, not reported. Patrons, Trustees. There are chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, Free Methodists, and Roman Catholics. There is also a convent. The Free Methodist chapel was built in 1864; and a school, in connexion with it, to accommodate 250 children, was built in 1866. National schools were erected in 1855.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a township, and a parochial chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Levenshulme |
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