Hurst, Lancashire

Description
Hurst, a populous village and an ecclesiastical parish in Ashton-nnder-Lyne parish, Lancashire. The village lies in the Hartsbead division of the parish, is under the Local Government Act, and is governed by a local board. The local board district also comprises the villages of Higher Hurst, Hurst Nook, and Hurst Brook. Higher Hurst village stands near the L. & Y.R. station of Ashton-nnder-Lyne, about half a mile N of that town, is a populous place, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Ashton-under-Lyne. The staple trade is cotton spinning and collieries. The infantry and cavalry barracks, erected in 1843 at a cost of £42, 500, are a short distance to the E. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1846. Population, 6071. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church was built in 1849, and enlarged in 1862. There are Primitive and New Connexion Methodist chapels, and a police station.