A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



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

 wards '^ 



The MinshuUs 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 

 1 61 8, when its constables are 

 mentioned." 



At one time GREENLOW HEJTH appears to 

 have been considered a separate township.'* About 

 1320 it was demised to Sir John Byron and his wife 

 for life at a rent of 100/. a year.'' A century later 

 it was in the possession of Thomas la Warre, with 

 remainder to Sir John Byron, Robert de Langley, 

 Robert son of John del Booth, and William del 

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

 was worth 4.0^. 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 1804 ; 

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

 All Saints', which has a mission church called 

 St. Matthias', dates fi-om 1820 ;"' St. Saviour's, 



MiNSHuLL of Chorl- 

 ton. Azure a crescent 

 therefrom hsuant an «- 

 toile argent. 



1836 ;" St. Stephen's, 1853 ;'' St. Paul's, 1862 ;'» 

 St. Clement's, Greenheys, 1881;*° 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 the United Free Church one, which superseded an 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 ; *' and the Welsh 

 Congregationalists have one.** 



The Presbyterian Church of England has two 

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

 drew's, Oxford Road." 



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 1 87 1, is served by the Jesuits ; " those of the 

 Holy Family, 1 876, and St. Joseph, 1888, by secular 

 clergy. There are houses of the Little Sisters of the 

 Poor and others. 



The Jews have a synagogue. 



^^ Pal. of Lane. Feet of F. bdle. 14, m. 

 247. See also the account of Entwisle. 



^ Edward Tyldesley of Morleys be- 

 queathed tea messuages In Chorlton, Rus- 

 holme, and Manchester to William his 

 third son for life, with remainder to 

 Edward son and heir of testator's son 

 Thomas ; thejr were held of John Lacy 

 as of his manor of Manchester in socage 

 by a rent of \%d. ; Duchy of Lanes. 

 Inq. p.m. xiv, 10. The reduction in 

 the free rent indicates that much had 

 been sold. 



2^ Humphrey Booth of Salford in 1635 

 held lands in Chorlton of the lord of 

 Manchester ; Duchy of Lane. Inq. p.m. 

 xxvii, 44. The lands were probably part 

 of the Garrett estate purchased' rom 

 Thomas Leigh of High Legh (East Hall) 

 in 1619 ; Manch. Ct. Leet Rec. iii, 17. 



Edmund Prestwich of Hulme held lands 

 in Chorlton at his death in 1629, and 

 devised them for life to his younger sons ; 

 the tenure is not stated ; Duchy of Lane. 

 Inq. p.m. xxvii, 7+ ; Manch. Ct. Leet Rec. 

 iii, 152. 



Adam Jepson, of Chorlton Row and 

 Moston, left his estates to his daughter 

 Jane, who married the James Lightbowne 

 whose sister Anne married Thomas Min- 

 shuU 5 Booker, Blackleyy 191, 172 ; Manch. 

 Ct. Leet Rec. iv, 168. 



George Worsley of Blakestake in Chorl- 

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



The estate of Thomas Stockton was in 

 dispute in 1701 ; Exch. Dep. (Ree. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches,), 99, 101. 



^** Land tax returns at Preston. 



" Manch. Constables' Accts. i, 42 ; also 

 i, 20, z8, 29 ; see also Misc. (Ree. Soe. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 151 ; the contributor 



to the subsidy in 1622 was Ralph Hudson, 

 'in goods.' He died in 1630, leaving 

 lands in Chorlton to his son Ralph^ Manch, 

 Ct. Leet Rec. iii, i6g. 



82 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) Grelley 

 and Ellen his wife ; Cal. Pat. 1324-7, p. 

 304. 



»» Mamecestre {Chet. Soe.), ii, 364. The 

 land measured 139 acres and was valued 

 at id. an acre rent. It is perhaps the 

 same as the ' Grenlaw more ' of the in- 

 quisition of 1282 ; Lanes. Inq, and Extents, 

 i, 244. 



8< Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Hen. VI, no. 54. 

 The description reads : 'Three messu- 

 ages, 140 acres of land, 10 acres of 

 meadow, and 20 acres of pasture in Green- 

 low heath, beginning at the Roocroft, and 

 so following between the Roocroft and 

 the hedge of Whitaker up to the mete of 

 Chorlton Edge, thence between Chorlton 

 Edge and Greenlow heath up to Bal- 

 shagh field, and so following between the 

 mete of Rusholme and Greenlow heath 

 up to the mete of Holt, and so 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 1859 ; 

 Land. Gaz. e. Dee. The church adjoins 

 the old Chorlton Hall, the remaining 

 part of which is the rectory house. The 

 inscriptions are in the Owen MSS. 



^ It has had a district chapelry from 

 1839, reconstituted in 1859 ; Lond. Gaz. 

 29 Mar. 1839 ; 2 Dee. 1859. 



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^7 For the district, first formed in 1837,, 

 see ibid. 1 July 1856. 



88 The district was formed in 1856 ; 

 ibid. I July. 



^* The district was assigned in 1862; 

 ibid. 22 July, 



40 This church succeeded St. Clement'^ 

 in Manchester, now demolished. 



41 From Nightingale, Lanes, Nonconf, 

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

 Road Chapel was opened in 1826. An- 

 other in Tipping Street, begun about 

 1835, was given up in 1881, the congre- 

 gation joining Stockport Road Church,, 

 which had been formed in 1868 ; the 

 first building of the latter was opened in 

 1871, the present Octagon Church suc- 

 ceeding it in 1893, Greenheys Church 

 is an offshoot from that in Chorlton Road, 

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



178. 



Cavendish Street represents a removal 

 from Mosley Street, Manchester, a chapel 

 dating from 1788. The removal took 

 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, and removed to Chorlton 

 in 1859 ; the present church was opened 

 in 1863. 



^ That in Brunswick Street, built in 

 1857, represents the church founded in 

 1798 in Lloyd Street, Manchester ; that 

 in Grosvenor Square, built in 1850, was 

 founded in 1830. 



** St. Andrew's was closed in 1902, 

 and is now a furniture shop. 



*^ Services began a year or two earlier 

 in Portsmouth Street. 



