Failsworth, Lancashire

Description
Failsworth, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in I Manchester civil parish, Lancashire. The township lies on j the Eochdale Canal, and has a station on the Oldham branch i of the L. & Y.R., 4 miles NE of Manchester; and has a j post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester, i and a station on the railway. Acreage, 1073; population, j 10,425. The township is governed by a local board, j The chief industry is cotton spinning, but cotton and silk i weaving and the manufacture of hats are also carried on. j The chapelry is coterminate with the township, and was constituted in 1846. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1846. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, Uni-tarian, Methodist New Connexion, Swedenborgian, and Roman Catholic chapels, and several schools. The Swedenborgian chapel was erected in 1889 near the site of an older one.