Butterworth, Greater Manchester
Butterworth was a Township (England), township occupying the southeastern part of the parish of Rochdale (ancient parish), Rochdale, in the hundred of Salford (hundred), Salford, Lancashire, England. It was also a civil parish. It encompassed of land in the South Pennines which spanned the settlements of Belfield, Greater Manchester, Belfield, Bleaked-gate-cum-Roughbank, Butterworth Hall, Clegg Hall, Clegg, Haughs, Hollingworth, Kitcliffe, Lowhouse, Milnrow, Newhey, Ogden, Rakewood, Smithy Bridge, Tunshill and Wildhouse. It extended to the borders of Shaw and Crompton, Crompton to the south, and to the highest points of Bleakedgate Moor and Clegg Moor, up to the ridge of Blackstone Edge, to the east, where its boundary was the old county boundary between Lancashire and Yorkshire. In 1891 the parish had a population of 9438. Butterworth was probably settled in Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Saxon times in the Early Middle Ages. Its land was divided into two divisions, the Lor ...
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