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GREENACRES MOOR, a chapelry in Prestwich parish; suburban to Oldham. It was constituted recently; and it has a post office† under Oldham, and contains one of the new Oldham cemeteries. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £200. Patron, the Rector of Prestwich. The church is a new stone edifice, in the Gothic style. A new Wesleyan chapel, in lieu of a previous one, was built in 1864.
(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: | Lancashire Ancient County |
| Place: | Greenacres |
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