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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hundersfield like this:
HUNDERSFIELD, a division of Rochdale parish, Lancashire. It comprises the township of Wardleworth, the township of Wuerdle-with-Wardle, the township of Blatchinworth-with-Calderbrook, and the Whitworth and Brandwood portions of the township of Spotland. A parochial chapelry in Waedleworth is called sometimes Hundersfield, and sometimes Wardleworth-St. ...
Mary. This was constituted in 1844, and lies within Rochdale borough. Pop. in 1861, 10, 610. Houses, 2, 013. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £300.* Patron, the Vicar of Rochdale. The church was built in 1740, as a chapel of ease. The name Hundersfield is a corruption of Honorsfield; and that was derived from the word Honore, signifying a Saxon lord.
Hundersfield is now part of ROCHDALE District. Click here for graphs and data of how ROCHDALE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hundersfield itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hundersfield, in Rochdale and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21477
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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