Description
Stretford, a township and two ecclesiastical parishes on the S border of Lancashire. The township lies on the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham railway, 4 miles SW of Manchester, is in Manchester parish, contains many handsome villa residences, a public hall, a temperance institute, the Manchester botanic garden, the asylum for the blind, the school for the deaf and dumb, public baths, a cemetery, two churches, five dissenting chapels, and a Roman Catholic chapel of 1864. It has a railway station, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester. Area, 3255 acres, including 52 of water; population, 21,751. The Pomona Dock of the Manchester Ship Canal is in the parish. St Matthew's ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1839 (population, 9852), and St Bride's in 1879 (population, 10,037). The living of St. Matthew's with All Saints and that of St Bride's are rectories in the diocese of Manchester; net values, £498 and £398 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter and five trustees. The church was rebuilt in 1841.
Stretford Parliamentary Division of South-East Lancashire was formed under the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885, and returns one member to the House of Commons. Population, 67,004. The division includes the following:- Manchester (part of), Bradford, Burnage, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Didsbury, Harpurhey, Heaton Norris (such part as is not within the municipal borough of Stockport), Levenshulme, Moss-side, Newton, Reddish, Rusholme, Stretford, Withington; Manchester, municipal borough; Salford, municipal borough; Stockport, municipal borough (the part in Lancashire).
