Droylsden, Lancashire

Description
Droylsden, a township, partly within the county borough of Manchester, and an ecclesiastical parish in Manchester parish, Lancashire, on the Rochdale Canal, 4 miles E of Manchester. It includes the Moravian village of Fairfield, and has a joint station on the L. & Y. and L. & N.W. railways, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester, and a branch of the Manchester and Liverpool Bank. Acreage, 1144 ; population of the township, 12,810 ; of the ecclesiastical parish, 9482. The township is governed by a local board of nine members. Many of the inhabitants are employed in cotton-spinning mills, and there are also chemical and dye works, an iron foundry, and brick works. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, c£300 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. There are also Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.