Butterworth, a township in Rochdale parish, Lancashire. It lies on the verge of the county, near the Manchester and Leeds railway, 2 miles E of Rochdale, and includes the hamlets of Clegg, Wildhouse, Belfield, Lowhouse, Hanging Lees, and Roughbank. Post town, Rochdale. Acreage, 7766; population, 9438. There are cotton and woollen factories, and two collieries. There are now two parishes‹St James', Munrow, and St Thomas', Newhey; the latter church was rebuilt in 1876. There are six dissenting chapels in the township, and three railway stations.
