Ashton under Lyne St Michael, Lancashire Family History Guide

Ashton under Lyne St Michael is an Ancient Parish and a market town in the county of Lancashire.

Other places in the parish include: Ashton Town, Alt Hill, Alt Edge, Alt, Wood Park, Taunton, Smallshaw, Lanehead, Knott Lanes, Hurstbrooks, Heyrod, Hazlehurst, Hartshead with Stalybridge, Hartshead, and Crossbank and Lees.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1594
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1621

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Christians, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent Methodist, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, Protestant Dissenters, Swedenborgian/New Jerusalem/New Church, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Association.

Adjacent Parishes

• Ashton under Lyne Christ Church
• Leesfield
• Ashton under Lyne St Peter
• Hurst
• Stalybridge New St George
• Bardsley
• Dukinfield St Mark
• Glodwick
• Castle Hall
• Dukinfield St John the Evangelist

Parish History

See Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire Family History Guide

Administration

• County: Lancashire
• Civil Registration District: Ashton under Lyne
• Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
• Diocese: Manchester
• Rural Deanery: Ashton Under Lyne
• Poor Law Union: Ashton Under Lyne
• Hundred: Salford
• Province: York