Description
Norden, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Rochdale parish, Lancashire, in the W suburbs of Rochdale. The parish is governed by a parish council of twelve members, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Rochdale. It was constituted in 1862. Population, 3026. There are cotton factories, fulling mills, and collieries at places in the parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester, net value, £320. Patron, the Bishop. The church was built in 1862 at a cost of nearly £2300; is in the Decorated English style; consists of chancel, nave, aisle, transept, and a tower, with a fine spire; and contains 524 sittings. There are two Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
