Pendlebury, Lancashire

Description
Pendlebury, a village, a township, and three ecclesiastical parishes in Eccles civil parish, Lancashire. The village stands on an eminence, near the Bolton Canal and the river Irwell, 7 miles SE of Bolton, and 4 NW of Manchester. It has a station on the L. & Y.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester. The township comprises 869 acres; population, 6383. There are numerous good residences, coal is extensively worked, and there are several cotton mills. The ecclesiastical parishes are St John the Evangelist, Christchurch, and St Augustine, and were constituted in respectively 1842,1859, and 1874. Populations, 3814, 5030, and 3659 respectively. The livings are vicarages in the diocese of Manchester. Value of St John the Evangelist, £350 (gross); of Christchurch, £230 (gross); and of St Augustine, £210 (net), all with residences. Patron of Christchurch and St Augustine, the Bishop of Manchester. Two of the churches are stone structures-St John's plain, Christchurch in the Early English style-and St Augustine's is a plain brick building. A baptistery was added to St John's in 1882. There are a public hall and institute erected in 1870, and a large hospital for children opened in 1878.