A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



jrear 1 5 5 1 K and probably dispersed soon after- 

 wards ** 



The Miusiiulls were thus the first resident owners 

 of importance, and there are but few references to 

 Chorlton before the 1 7th cen- 

 tury." The land tax returns 

 of 1784 show that the owner- 

 ship was much divided ; Roger 

 Aytoun still had the largest 

 share, paying about a fifth of 

 the tax ; then came John Tay- 

 lor, the Gore-Booths, Mrs. 

 Piggott, Mr. Melland, Mrs. 

 Hyde, and John Dickenson." 



Chorlton was recognized as 

 a separate township before 

 1618, when its constables ait 

 mentioned." 



MIKSHVLL of Chorl- 

 ton. 4*rr crttctmt 



Nile ii'fial. 



At one time GREENLOtr HEJTH appears to 

 hare been considered a separate township." About 

 I Jto it was demised to Sir John Byron and his wife 

 for life at a rent of locu. a year. 38 A century later 

 it was in the possession of Thomas la Wane, with 

 remainder to Sir John Byron, Robert de Langlcy, 

 Robert son of John del Booth, and William del 

 Booth ; it was held of the king as of his duchy, and 

 was worth 40*. clear per annum." 



The township having during the last century be- 

 come a residential suburb of Manchester, a large 

 number of places of worship have been built. For 

 the Established Church St. Luke's was built in 1 804 ; 

 it was consecrated in 1858 and rebuilt in 1865 ;** 

 All Saints', which has a mission church called 

 St. Matthias', dates from iSao;* St. Saviour's, 



1836 ;" St. Stephen's, 1853 ;* St. Paul's, 1861 ; 

 St. Clement's, Greenheys, 1 88 1 j* and St. Am- 

 brose, 1884. The Bishop of Manchester collates 

 to the last of these ; the dean and canons present 

 to All Saints' ; the Rev. W. F. Birch, now rector, 

 to St. Saviour's, and bodies of trustees to the 

 others. The incumbents are styled rectors. In 

 connexion with St. Ambrose's is St. David's Welsh 

 church. 



The Wesleyan Methodists have three churches and 

 the United Free Church one, which superseded an 

 older one, called the Tabernacle, in 1870. There is 

 a Welsh Wesleyan chapel at Greenheys. 



The Baptists have Union Church in Oxford Road 

 and two others, one of them belonging to the Particular 

 Baptists. 



The Congregationalists have the Octagon in Stock- 

 port Road and five other churches ; 4l and the Welsh 

 Congregationalists have one. 4 * 



The Presbyterian Church of England has two 

 places of worship ; and there was till lately St. An- 

 drew's, Oxford Road. 44 



The Salvation Army has a meeting place, as also 

 have the Church of United Friends, the Christadel- 

 phians, and the Unitarians. 



There are places of worship also for the Armenians 

 (Holy Trinity, Upper Brook Street) and for the 

 German Protestants (in Greenheys). 



The Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Name, 

 opened in 1871, is served by the Jesuits ; * those of the 

 Holy Family, 1876, and St. Joseph, 1888, by secular 

 clergy. There are houses of the Little Sisters of the 

 Poor and others. 



The Jews have a synagogue. 



*f Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 14, m. 

 14~. See also the account of Entwi&le. 



"Edward Tyldesler of Morleys be- 

 queathed ten messuages ia Chorlton, Rot- 

 holme, and Manchester to William his 

 third son for life, with remainder to 

 Mw*ld son and heir of testator's son 

 Thomas ; they were held of John Lacy 

 as of his manor of Manchester ia socafe 

 by a rent of i W. ; Duchy of Lanes. 

 Inq. pan. v, 10. The reduction in 

 the free rent indicates that much had 

 beentoM. 



* Humphrey Booth of Salford in 1635 

 held lands in Chorlton of the lord of 

 Manchester ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. pan. 

 xrvii, 44. The lands were probably pan 

 of the Garrett estate purchased* rom 

 Thomas Leigh of High Legh (East Hall) 

 in 1619 j MmdL O. Lett Ret. iii, 17. 



Edmund Prettwich of Huhne held lands 

 in Chorlton at his death in 1610, and 

 dented tjacm for life to his younger sons ; 

 the tenure not stated j Duchy of Lane, 

 Inq. pun. Mtrn, 74 ; Mmdk. Cfc Lttt Act. 



".$* 



Adam Jepson, of Chorlton Row and 

 Moston, left his estates to hit daughter 

 Jane, who married the James Ltghtbowne 

 whose sister Anne married Thomas Min- 

 shull tlnifcM, ifaifcj, 191, 17* J MMC*. 

 C.\ Lttt Jtec. hr, i6S. 



Tli nfi TfMJhj if ihiniil i in rti ii 1 1 



ton is mentioned in 1677 ; ibid, vi, 36. 



The estate of Thomas *fri^'"i was in 

 tepute in 1701 ; EJK*. Drf, (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and CfcaJ^ 99, 101. 



" Land tax retwa* * Itcrtoo. 



AfeK*. Ci nlfcf Attn. i, 42 ; also 

 i, 20, at, 29 ; see abo Mix. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Che*.), i, i ji ; the r nriU ifcatoi 



to the subsidy in 1621 was Ralph Hudson, 

 *in goods.' He died in 1630, leaving 

 lands ia Chorlton to his ton Ralph; MMCB 

 Cf. Lttt Jbec. iii, 169. 



a See a deed quoted under Gorton. 

 The name is often corrupted to Grindlow. 

 In 1326 the king confirmed a grant of 

 lands in Greenlow Heath made by John 

 La Warre to Robert (son of John) Grdley 

 and Ellen his wife ; CW. fa. 13x4-7, p. 

 34- 



* MMMMft*(Clwk Soc), ii, 364. The 

 land measured 1 39 acres and was valued 

 at & an acre rent. It is perhaps the 

 same at the * Grenlaw more * of the in- 

 quisition of I ill ; L+mct, Imf. / Extrrrs, 



a44- 



** Chan. Inq. pan. 5 Hen. VI, no. 54. 

 The description reads : *Three messu- 

 ajes, 140 acres of land, 10 acres of 

 meadow, aad so acres of pasture in Green- 

 low heath, beginning at the Roocroft, and 

 to following between die Roocroft and 

 the hedge of Whitaker up to the mete of 

 Chorlton Edge, thence between Choritoo 

 Edge and Greenlow heath up to Bal- 

 shagh field, and so following between the 

 mete of Rushohne and Greenlow heath 

 up to the mete of Holt, and to following 

 between the mete of Holt and Greenlow 

 heath up to the highway leading from 

 Stockport to Manchester, and so following 

 the highway up to Roocroft.' 



** The district was formed in 1159 ; 

 LmL Gam. a Dec. The church adjoins 

 the old Choritoo Hall, the remaining 

 part of which is the rectory house. The 

 inscription* are in the Owen MSS. 



It has had a district chapelry from 

 1139, reconstituted in 1X59 ; LmJ. Gtau 

 9% Mar. t$39 ; a Dec. 1159. 



254 



*? For the district, first formed in 1837, 

 see ibid, t July 1856. 



" The district was formed in 1856 j 

 ibid, t July. 



** The district was assigned in 1861 j 

 ibid, aa July. 



** This church succeeded St. Clement's 

 in Manchester, now demolished. 



41 From Nightingale, L*xcs. Nci*f. 

 (vi, 166-74), it appears that Rusholme 

 Road Chapel was opened in 1826. An- 

 other ia Tipping Street, begun about 

 lit J, was given up in 1 8S i, the congre- 

 gation joining Stockport Road Church, 

 which had been formed in iS6S ; the 

 first building of the latter was opened in 

 187 1, the present tVlifM Church suc- 

 ceeding it in 1893. Greenheys Church 

 is an ofrshoot from that in Chorlton Road, 

 and was formed in 1870-71 ; ibid, vi, 

 i-S. 



Cavendish Street represents a removal 

 from Mosley Street, Manchester, a chapel 



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place in 1848, during the pastorate of 

 Dr. Halley, who in 1858 was succeeded 

 by the late Dr. Joseph Parker of the City 

 Temple, London ; ibid, vi, 142-7. 



Ibid, vi, 206. The work began in 

 1842 in Hulme, aad removed to Chorlton 

 in 1859 ; the present church was opened 

 in 1863. 



49 That in Brunswick Street, buQt in 

 1857, represents the church founded ia 

 1798 in Ijpyj Street, Manchester ; that 

 ia Grosvenor Square, built in 1850, was 

 founded in 1830. 



44 St. Andrew's was dosed in 1902, 

 and it now a furniture shop. 



41 Services began a year or two earlier 

 a Portsmouth Street* 



