In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Dobcross like this:
DOBCROSS, a village and a chapelry in Saddleworth-with-Quick township, Rochdale parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands adjacent to the Huddersfield canal and the Sheffield and Manchester railway, near Saddleworth r. station, and 6½ miles NE of Ashton-under-Lyne; and has a post office under Manchester, and a banking office. ...
Markets are held on Wednesdays; and fairs on the second Thursday of March and the last Thursday of July. The chapelry was constituted in 1844. Pop., 1, 972. Houses, 418. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £200.* Patron, the Vicar of Rochdale. The church is plain.
Dobcross through time
Dobcross is now part of Oldham district. Click here for graphs and data of how Oldham has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Dobcross itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Dobcross, in Oldham and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20897
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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