In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Rusholme like this:
RUSHOLME, a township in Manchester parish, Lancashire; on the Manchester and Macclesfield railway, 2½ miles S by E of Manchester. Acres, 956. Real property, £32, 495. Pop. in 1851, 3, 679; in 1861, 5, 380. Houses, 986. The limits include a considerable suburb of Manchester, and the chapelry of Birch. R. House and R. Park are chief residences. A Wesleyan chapel, a cruciform edifice in the Gothic style, was built here in 1863, at a cost of £4,000.
Rusholme through time
Rusholme is now part of Manchester district. Click here for graphs and data of how Manchester has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Rusholme itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Rusholme, in Manchester and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20124
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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