Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HAMER

HAMER, a chapelry in Rochdale parish, Lancashire; comprising a suburb of Rochdale, with several large factories. Pop., 3, 390. The living is a vicarage. Value £200. The church was built in 1867, at a cost of £5, 000.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Lancashire Ancient County
Place: Hamer

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