Tyldesley, Lancashire

Description
Tyldesley, a town, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish, in Leigh parish, Lancashire. The town is 2 1/2 miles ENE of Leigh, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester, a railway station on the L. & N.W.R. from Manchester to Wigan, several inns, a temperance and education hall, two churches, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan, and Calvinistic chapels, Liberal and Conservative clubs, three banks, public baths, collieries, ironworks, and extensive cotton mills. A cemetery with three mortuary chapels was formed in 1878. The township includes Shakerley hamlet and Mosley Common, and is called TyIdesley-with-Shakerley urban district Acreage, 2490; population, 12,891. It is governed by an urban district council, to whom the gas and waterworks belong. The living is a vicarage, with Shakerley annexed, in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Bishop. The church was built in 1825, and was thoroughly restored and a new chancel erected in 1886. It is in the Early Pointed style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, transept, W porch, and western tower with lofty spire, and contains several memorial windows. St John's Church, erected in 1886 as a chapel of ease, is now a separate parish called Mosley Common. The church is in the Gothic style, insisting of chancel, nave, aisles, vestry, and S porch.