Description
Heaton, Great, a township in Prestwich parish, Lancashire, on the river Irk, 4 miles N by W of Manchester, 2 from Middleton station, and about 188 from London. It was anciently known as Heaton Reddish, and it includes the hamlet of Lands End. Post town and telegraph office, Middleton; money order office, Rhodes. Acreage, 875; population, 397. The manor belonged to the Langleys, and passed to the Red-dishes, the Cokes, and the Drinkwaters. Most of the land, with Heaton House, belongs now to the Earl of Wilton, who is lord of the manor. Heaton House is a splendid mansion in the Ionic style, and stands in a well-wooded park about 5 miles in circuit.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
