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WALSDEN, a chapelry in Rochdale parish, Lancashire; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 2 miles S of Todmorden. It was constituted in 1845; and it has a post-office under Todmorden, and a r. station with telegraph. Rated property, £7,463. Pop., 3,934. Houses, 770. The property is much subdivided. There are cotton-mills, chemical works, collieries, and quarries. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £200.* Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1845; is in the early English style; and has a spire added in 1863. There is a parochial school.
(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: | Walsden |
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