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Pendleton in Lancaster County England History and GeographyPENDLETON, a chapelry in the parish of ECCLES, hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER, 2½ miles (W. by N.) from Manchester, containing 5948 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Eccles, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £200 royal bounty, and £1800 parliamentary grant. The chapel, dedicated to St. Thomas, was built by Messrs. S. Brierly and John Fletcher, in 1777, and was purchased by subscription among the inhabitants shortly afterwards: it was originally used as a place of worship for Methodists, the celebrated John Wesley having first officiated in it. The first stone of a new church was laid in July 1829, in which it is intended to accommodate one thousand six hundred persons, the commissioners for building additional churches having granted £600, and the inhabitants having subscribed £1000, towards defraying the expense. The Independents, Wesleyans, and Methodists of the New Connexion, have each a place of worship here. The Liverpool and Edinburgh road, the Bolton and Bury canal, and the Manchester and Liverpool rail-road, pass through the chapelry. There are several cotton-mills, with dyeing, printing, and bleaching establishments, also a flax-mill upon an improved principle, together affording employment to about two thousand five hundred persons, the remainder of the inhabitants being chiefly occupied in the manufacture of silk and cotton, in handicraft trades, and at the neighbouring collieries. A small library of useful works was established in 1829 at the village, adjacent to which are many pleasant genteel villas. A school is supported by subscription, in which about two hundred children are instructed. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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