WHITEFIELD, CRUMPSALL, AND 'BLACKLEY, WITH ROODEN LANE OR HEATON PARK, BARNES GREEN, BESSES-0'-TH'-BARN, HOLLINS RAINSOUGH, STAND, UNSWORTH, AND NEIGHBOURIIOODS .

RESTWICH is a township, head of a union, extensive .At SEDOLEY PARK and HrLTON PARK are several hand­ P parish, on the road from Bury to , 4 miles some residences. north-west from Manchester, 5 south from Bury, giving name BARNES GREEN is a suburb on the high road to Rochdale, to the dirision of the county of Lancaster, in about 3 miles north from and now incorporated with hundred, petty sessional division and county court district, Manchester. rural deanery of Prestwich and Middleton and arch deaconry and diocese of Manchester: the parish includes the town­ RArNsouGH is a hamlet in this parish, adjoining ships of PRESTWICH, GREAT HEATON, and parts of LITTLE Kersal Moor. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a school. HEATON, ToNGE with ALKRTNGTON, 0LDHAM, CHA.DDERTON, RooD EN LANE, or HEA.TON PARK, is a hamlet in the CRO::IlPTON, RoYTON and OuTwoon, and is 15 miles in length parish of Prestwich, about 4 miles N. w. from Manchester, and 4 in breadth; the Manchester, Bury and canal and has a station on the Manchester and Bury branch of the and the pass to the west of the village, and Lancashire and Yorkshire railway. Heaton Park, from there are two railway stations on the Manchester and Hacup which the locality takes its name, was formerly the seat of branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway. The the Earl of Wilton, but in 1901 the corporation of :Man­ "Local Government Act, 1858" (21 & 22 Vict. c. 98), was chester purchased the park and mansion, together with a adopted here 2r Dec. r866, but under the "Local Govern­ strip of land between the park and city boundary, for the ment Act, r894" (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), the township is now sum of {,23o,ooo, for the purpose of a public park. The governed by an Urban District Council, divided into five mansion is of the Ionic order, by Wyatt. The park, which wards and consists of 15 members. The mother church of is finely timbered, is 4 miles in circumference. St. Mary, standing on an eminence overlooking the well­ wooded valley of the Irwell and embosomed in fine old PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, beech trees, is a venerable structure of sandstone, in the Prestwich.-Elijah Schofield, sub-postmaster. Letters Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, the Wilton arrive through Manchester at 6.45 a.m. & 12.50 & chapel on the north side, the Lever and South chapcls on 5· ro p. m. ; dispatched at 9.20 & 10.45 a.m. & 2. 25, 5, the south and a western tower 85 feet in height, containing 8.15 & 9.30 p.m.; sunday, arrive at 6.45 a.m.; dispatched a clock and 6 bells: it was restored in 1861, the Lever at 8.15 p.m.; parcel post despatched at 10.30 a.m. & chapel rebuilt in 187 5 and the Birch chapel restored in 2.15 & 8 p.m 1876: during the years 1883-4 the church was restored at a PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, cost of £5,soo, and in 1888-9 a new chancel with orl!ltn Heaton Park.-George Reaney, sub-postmailter. Letters chamber and vestries for clergy and choir were built at a arrive from Manchester at 6.25 a. m.; dispatched at 10.50 further cost of £5,300, and an organ erected at a cost of a.m. & 2.5 & 8.20 p.m. ; sunday, 8.20 p.m £1 ,ooo : the reredos was erected by the Rev. Henry Mild red Birch B. D. rector 1852-84, and :vrrs. Birch : in the PosT OFFICE, Rainsough.-John Dawson, sub-postmaster. Wilton chapel are several monuments to the Wilton family: Letters through Manchester arrive at 8 a. m. ; dispatched the churclt affords about I,ooo sittim;s. The register dates 8 & 10 a. m. & 1.30 & 7 p.m. Prestwich is the nearest from the year 1003. The living is a rectory, nPt yearly money order & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued value£ 1,78o, including 53 acres of glebe and residence, in here, but not paid the gift of the Earl of W.ilton, and held since 1899 by the PosT, M. 0. & S. B. Office, Kirkhams, Bury Old road.-W. Rev. Frederic Wilson Cooper M.A.. of Keble College, H. Olive, sub-postmaster. Letters are delivered from Oxford. The vault of the Earls of Wilton was closed Prestwich, which is the nearest telegraph office. Box some years smce by an. Order in Council. St. Margaret's, cleared at 8.30 & 10.5 a.m.; 1.35 & 7.30 p.m Holyrood, is an ecclesiastical parish, formed May 22, 1885, from Prestwich civil parish ; the church, in Holyrood, was Member of Parliament for the Prestwich Division built in r849-51 on land given by the Earl of Wilton, who of the County of Lancaster. also bore the chief expense of the building, the foundation -stone being laid by H. R. H. the Duchess of Cam bridge, Frederick Cawley esq. Brooklands, Prestwich, & Reform ..3 Oct. 1849: it is a building of stone in the Gothic style, & National Liberal clubs, London .and consists of chancel, nave, aisles and an eastern turret .containing one bell : the stained west window is a memorial Urban District Council. to the late Earl of Wilton : the church. atiords 6oo sittings. Offices, Chester bank, Bury New road. The registers date from the year 185I. The living is a ~icarage, net yearly value £360, in the gift of the rector of Council meets the second wednesday in each month at Prestwich, and held since 1892 by the Rev. Joseph Herbert 7-3o p.m_ Kidson M.A. of Hertford College, Oxford. The iron church MEMBJ.;RS. rin Whittaker lane was built in 1887, at a cost of £750. Chairman-James His lop, Ingleside, Prestwich park Divine service is also hPld every Sunday at 8 a.m., rr a.m. Vice-r.hairman, Wilham Davenport, Hawthorn villas, Bury and 6.30 p.m. The Catholic church, erected at a cost of New road £2,000, is in Fairfax road. There are Congregational, NORTH WARD. Wesleyan a.nd Primitive Methodist chapels, and in the t Arthur Walkden, St. Aubins, Poppythorn lane centre of the town is a Jewish cemetery, laid out in 184L 1James Grant, 9 Arthur street There are factories, principally of smallwares, and also itJames Leach, Gardner road bleach works, which afford occupation to many operatives. The lordship of the manor of Prestwich is vested in the CENTRAL WARD. representative of the late Thomas Drinkwater, of Irwell tHorrocks Williarn H. 54 Gardner road House, Drinkwater park. The population of St. Margaret, Herbert 0_ Wroe, Clark's hill Holyrood, ecclesiastical parish, in 1891 was 9,709. The *James Hislop, Prestwich park township contains 3,o68 acres, including 14 of water; SOUTH WARD. rateable value, £62,454; the population_ in 1891 was tThomas N eild, Belmont, .Arthnr street t0,9Q2, including 313 officers and 2,3_03 mmates of the tGeorge William Rayner Wood J.P. Singleton lodge, Bury -eonnty lunatic asylum. The populatiOn of the urban Old road -diStrict in 1901 was 12,839· *Henry B. Lodge, Dudley house, Prestwich park