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CROMPTON (East), a chapelry in Crompton township, Prestwich parish, Lancashire, constituted in 1835. Post town, Shaw, under Oldham. Rated property, £6, 446. Pop., 3, 414. Houses, 693. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Manchester. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1847; and schools in 1857.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Prestwich CP/AP Lancashire AncC |
Place names: | CROMPTON | CROMPTON EAST | EAST CROMPTON |
Place: | East Crompton |
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