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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))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Rochdale Parish Saddleworth Poor Law Union/Registration District Yorkshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Delph |
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