A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



church), Spotland, Butterworth, and Hundersfield. 3 

 Their boundaries were, speaking roughly, lines drawn 

 to the four points of the compass from a point to 

 the north of the church. Afterwards Hundersfield 

 was parted into four townships ; while in recent years 

 the ancient divisions have been almost entirely 

 obliterated, for the township of Rochdale has been 

 formed in the south, Todmorden has, for administra- 

 tive purposes, been taken into Yorkshire, and part of 

 Brandwood into Bacup ; the remainder of the parish 

 is divided into the modern townships of Milnrow, 

 Littleborough, Wardle, Whitworth, and Norden. 4 



The population of the part of Rochdale within 

 the administrative county in 1901, comprising 



32,532 acres, numbered 120,433; the districts 

 separately were as follows : Castleton, 40,699 ; 

 Spotland, 19,137; Wardleworth, 20,272; Whit- 

 worth and Wardle, 20,918 ; Littleborough, 11,166 ; 

 Milnrow, 8,017. 



Various prehistoric remains have been found, 

 chiefly in the hills ; a Roman road over Blackstone 

 Edge is still visible, and part of a silver statue of 

 Victory, coins, &c., have been found. 5 The whole 

 parish appears to have been a single lordship in 

 1066 ; the date at which Saddleworth 6 was separated 

 from Lancashire does not appear ; the Lacys added it 

 to their forest. There seems to have been only one 

 manor properly so called, but the Holts of Stubley 



PARISH. 



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8 These townships are found in the 

 subsidy roll of 1332, printed by the Record 

 Society of Lanes, and Ches. 



4 The arrangement was sanctioned in 

 1894; it followed the lines of the exist- 

 ing local board districts ; see Local Govt. 

 Bd. Orders 31646 and 32287. Milnrow 

 includes the greater part of Butterworth, 



with parts of Castleton and Spotland ; 

 Littleborough includes the whole of 

 Blatchinworth and Calderbrook, with 

 parts of Butterworth and Wuerdle and 

 Wardle ; Wardle is composed of part 

 of the old Wuerdle and Wardle, and 

 a small part of Butterworth ; Whit- 

 worth and Norden are formed out of Spot- 



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land, being its northern and central 

 portions. 



s Fishwick, Rochdale, 3-13 j Lanes, 

 and Ches. Antiq. Soc. xvi, 171 ; xvii, 233. 



6 No account of Saddleworth is given 

 in the present work, but considerable 

 materials will be found among the Raines 

 MSS. in the Chetham Library 



