Other places in the parish include: Kirkmanshulme and Culcheth.
Alternative names: Newton, Newton Heath All Saints, Newton with Culcheth and Kirkmanshulme
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
Parish registers: 1716
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1721
Nonconformists include: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Roman Catholic, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Association.
NEWTON, a suburb, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district, in Manchester district, Lancashire. The suburb adjoins Manchester city on the ENE; lies within Manchester parliamentary borough, but not within the municipal borough; and is traversed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, W and E of Miles-Platting station.
The township contains also the suburb of Culcheth, and the hamlet of Kirkmanshulme; is intersected by parts of two other townships, with the effect of isolating Kirkmanshulme 3 miles from the main body; is all in Manchester parish; and has a post-office under Manchester, and a station on the Manchester and Bury branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, both of the name of Newton-Heath. Acres, 1,585. Real property, £35,755. Pop. in 1851, 10,801; in 1861, 14,907. Houses, 3,029.
The manor comes earlier into notice than most other places in the vicinity of Manchester; appears to have been held, for some time, by the byrons of Clayton; and passed to the Collegiate church of Manchester. Culcheth Hall is now the only considerable antiquity; was the seat of the family of Culcheth, till they died out in the first half of the 17th century; passed to Sir John byron of Royton, to John Whitworth, Esq., and to the family of Greaves; and is now so modernized and altered as to retain no more of the original structure than a wainscoted room.
The township contains several large silk mills, several large chemical works, and some dye and bleach works; and has a local board of health, a police office, a public library and reading-room, a mechanics’ institute, and a branch of the Manchester and Salford Savings’ bank.
The chapelry dates from ancient times; originally included, not only all Newton township, but also Droylsden, Failsworth, Bradford, Open-shaw, Gorton, and the two Ardwicks; was curtailed at various periods, particularly in 1814; was re-constituted, within less extensive limits than those of the township in 1854; and now bears the name of Newton-Heath. Pop. in 1861, 11,241. Houses, 2,281.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £300. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Manchester. The present church is a substantial stone building, in the pointed style; has a magnificent stained-glass window; and contains 1,000 sittings.
There are two Methodist chapels, a church school, and a British school.
The sub-district comprises the townships of Newton and Bradford, and the extra-parochial tract of Beswick. Acres, 1,924. Pop. in 1851, 12,777; in 1861, 19,311. Houses, 3,907. The increase of pop. arose from street improvements, and from the erection of various kinds of works.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
