Description
Walsden, a hamlet and an ecclesiastical parish in Rochdale parish, Lancashire, with a station on the L. & Y.R., 2 miles S of Todmorden. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1845, and it has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Todmorden. Population, 4256. There are cotton-mills and chemical works. 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 1845, is in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and tower with spire.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
