Swinton, Lancashire

Description
Swinton, a village and an ecclesiastical parish, in Eccles parish, Lancashire, with a station on the L. & Y.R., 2 1/2 miles from Eccles, 4 1/2 WNW of Manchester. Swinton has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester, and together with the township of Pendlebury is governed by a district council. Population, 12,771. There are several good residences. Cotton manufacture and brick-making are carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Eccles. The church, dedicated to St Peter, was erected in 1869 on the site of the former one, and is a fine building in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, porch, and an embattled western tower. It contains some good stained windows. There are Congregational, Roman Catholic, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan, Unitarian, and Swedenborgian chapels. A cemetery 8 acres in extent, with two mortuary chapels, was opened in 1885 The Manchester Industrial Training Schools for 500 boys and 300 girls are in the parish. There is a school church at Moorside (Holyrood).