Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WHALLEY-RANGE

WHALLEY-RANGE, a chapelry in Manchester parish, Lancashire; 1½ mile S of Manchester r. station. It was constituted in 1854; and its Post town is Manchester. Pop., 3,980. Houses, 748. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £422.* Patrons, Trustees. The church was built in 1849.


(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: Manchester AP/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Whalley Range

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