Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DELPH

DELPH, a village and a sub-district in Saddleworth-with-Quick township, Rochdale parish, Saddleworth district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands at the terminus of a branch of the Sheffield and Manchester railway, 2¼ miles E of the boundary with Lancashire, and 6½ NE of Ashton-under-Lyne; and has a station on the railway, and a post office‡ under Manchester. The woollen manufacture is carried on. There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans. The sub-district comprises the part of Saddleworth-with-Quick township N of the Stockport and Newhouses road, and W of the Wakefield and Ansterlands road. Pop., 9, 754. Houses, 2, 048.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Rochdale CP/AP       Saddleworth RegD/PLPar/GilU/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Delph

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