A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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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.
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.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Rochdale CP/AP Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Dobcross |
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