Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NORDEN

NORDEN, a chapelry in Rochdale parish, Lancashire; in the W suburbs of Rochdale. It was constituted in 1862; and its post town is Rochdale. Pop., 2, 662. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £300. Patron, the Vicar of Spotland, St. Clement. The church was built in 1862, at a cost of nearly £3,000; is in the decorated English style; and contains 524 sittings.


(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: Norden

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