Description
Ashworth, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Middleton parish, Lancashire, on an affluent of the river Roch, 2 1/2 miles from Heywood station on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway. Post town, Rochdale. Acreage, 1021; population, 137. Lord Egerton of Tatton is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £170 with residence. Patron, Lord Egerton. The church is good.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
