In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Milnrow like this:
MILNROW, a village and a chapelry-in Butterworth township, Rochdale parish, Lancashire. The village stands on the river Beil, near the Rochdale canal, and near the Oldham and Rochdale branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, 2 miles ESE of Rochdale; is a seat of extensive manufacture, doing large business in the woollen trade; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post office‡ under Rochdale. ...
John Collier, better known as "Tim Bobbin, ''author of poems in the Lancashire dialect, was for 57 years a schoolmaster in the village; and the Rev. Canon Raines, distinguished for antiquarian knowledge and research, has thrown lustre upon it. The acreage of the chapelry is returned with the parish. Rated property, £22,245. Pop., 6., 200. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £300.* Patron, the Vicar of Rochdale. The church was built in 1798, and was about to be rebuilt in 1867. Thore are several dissenting chapels, a national school, and a Britisn school.
Milnrow through time
Milnrow is now part of Rochdale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Rochdale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Milnrow itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Milnrow, in Rochdale and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/334
Date accessed: 26th April 2024
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