Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FRIARMERE

FRIARMERE, a chapelry in Saddleworth township, Rochdale parish, and W. R. Yorkshire; at the backbone of England, contiguous to Lancashire, 1 mile N of Delph r. station, and 6½ SE of Rochdale. It was constituted in 1844; and its post town is Delph, under Manchester. Pop., 2, 979. Houses, 645. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £200. Patron, the Vicar of Rochdale.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Rochdale CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Friarmere

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