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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Thornham like this:
THORNHAM, a township in Middleton parish, Lancashire; 3½ miles S by W of Rochdale. Acres, 1,998. Real property, £8,018; of which £1,253 are in mines, and £15 in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 1,510; in 1861, 2,027. Houses, 379. Many of the inhabitants are employed in cotton-mills. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Thornham is now part of OLDHAM District. Click here for graphs and data of how OLDHAM has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Thornham itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Thornham, in Oldham and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22459
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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