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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Waterhead like this:
WATERHEAD, a chapelry in Prestwich parish, Lancashire; 1½ mile SE of Oldham r. station. It was constituted in 1844; and it has a post-office, of the name of W. Mill, under Oldham. Rated property, £14,729. Pop., 3,941. Houses, 823. The property is much sub-divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church is in the early English style. There are national schools.
Waterhead is now part of OLDHAM District. Click here for graphs and data of how OLDHAM has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Waterhead itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Waterhead, in Oldham and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25144
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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