AUDENSHAW, one of the four districts of the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, hundred of Salford, in the county palatine of Lancaster, 3 miles to the S.W. of Ashton. Manchester is its post town.
It comprises the hamlets of Hooleyhill, Walkmill, Littlemoss, Woodhouses, and North Street.
The Ashton canal and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire railway pass through Audenshaw.
The population are engaged in the cotton and silk manufactures, calico-printing, machine-making, hat-making, &c.
The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester, of the value of £150, in the patronage of the crown and the Bishop of Manchester.
Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868
HOOLEY HILL, a village in the parish of Ashton under Lyne, and district of Audenshaw, county Lancaster, 3 miles from Ashton-under-Lyne
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LITTLEMOSS, a village in the parish of Ashton under Lyne, and district of Audenshaw, county palatine of Lancaster, about 3 miles from Ashton-under-Lyne.
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NORTH-STREET, a hamlet in the district of Audenshaw, parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, county Lancaster, 3 miles S.W. of Ashton. It is situated near the canal and the line of the Sheffield railway.
Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868
WALKMILL, a village in the district of Audenshaw, parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, county Lancaster, 3 miles S.W. of Ashton-under-Lyne, and 4 E. of Manchester, near the Huddersfield canal and the river Tame.
Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868
WOODHOUSES, a hamlet in the Audenshaw division of the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, county Lancaster, 1 mile S.E. of Oldham.
Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868