Godley, Cheshire

Description
Godley, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Mottram parish, Cheshire. The township lies on the verge of the county, is a suburb of Hyde, but within that borough, 3 miles SSE of Ashton-under-Lyne, and has a station at the junction of the M.S. & L.R., G.N.R., and Cheshire Lines railway. It has a post and money order office (T.S.O.) under Hyde; telegraph office at railway station. Acreage, 645; population, 1408. The manufacture of cotton is carried and there are large margarine works. The manor was held in the time of King John by the family of Godleigh. The ecclesiastical parish bears the name of Godley-cum-Newton Green, and was constituted in 1847. Population, 2198. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester; gross value, £295 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church was built in 1850.