A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



TABLE OF POPULATION, 1801 — 1901 {continueii) 



■•* Withington. — The increase in i86i is attribnted to the erection of the new union workhouse 



<5 Birlle cum Bamford. — The increase in 1861 is partly due to the establishment of the union workhouse. 



■" Oldham and Chadderton Townships and Ashton-under-Lyne Parish. — The boundaries of these were altered by 

 43 & 44 ^■ict. c. 47, viz. : (i) Parts of Chadderton Township and Ashton-under-Lyne Parish added to Oldham Town- 

 ship ; and (2) part of Oldham Township to Chadderton Township. The populations of Oldham and Chadderton 

 cannot be corrected for 1881, nor can those of any of the three be corrected for 1891 and 1901. The net result was that 

 Oldham gained 64 acres — 8 from Ashton-nnder-Lyne and 56 from Chadderton. The areas given in the Table are for 

 the three places, frior to the alteration. 



*' Royton. — The return in 1821 mentions the presence of children apprentices from London, and states that the 

 Poor Laws and the late Vagrant Act are injurious to property. 



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