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Prestwich-cum-Oldham (also known as Prestwich with Oldham) was an ancient ecclesiastical parish of the hundred of Salford, within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire, England. With the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Prestwich as its centre, this parish encompassed a total of ten townships,〔 and within them, several smaller chapelries. Prestwich-cum-Oldham was divided into two non-contiguous sections: the townships of Great Heaton, Little Heaton, Pilkington, and Prestwich on the west; Alkrington, Tonge, Chadderton, Crompton, Oldham and Royton on the east. The parish of Middleton divided these two portions of Prestwich-cum-Oldham from north to south. The parish covered and was noted in 1851 to have a population of 94,470, and again in 1861, to have 117,961.〔(Prestwich CP/AP through time | Descriptive Gazetteer entries ) 〕 ==History== The parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham has "no united history",〔 and instead was a loose affiliation of rural townships between the South Pennines and West Pennine Moors that had one early-medieval church building between them. Prestwich-cum-Oldham traces its existence to the colony of priests whose presence gave Prestwich its name, as well as tithes, levies and terms of land-tenure related to the ancient Royal Manor of Tottington, a unit used for governance in the manorial system that spanned most of the territory.〔 Stretching for from east to west from the High Middle Ages onwards, Prestwich-cum-Oldham was probably larger in extent in earlier times; documents suggest an ecclesiastical connection with Radcliffe and Middleton.〔 Manorialism in the parish was comparatively weak when compared nationally; ruling families were either non-resident or of "only local importance".〔 An exception was the Pilkingtons, from the western portion of the parish, who ranked "among the great families of the county".〔 However, their military allegiance to Richard III, King of England and the House of York during the Wars of the Roses brought about their overthrow in the late-15th century.〔 The rector of Prestwich-cum-Oldham "was at first reluctantly compliant and then an avowed opponent" to the Elizabethan Religious Settlement of 1559,〔 however, there is little other evidence of opposition to the English Reformation and the established church. Nevertheless, it is one of only a few parishes in England in which any resistance was made; there was a show of popular support for the abolition of the Book of Common Prayer and Episcopal polity in favour of Presbyterian polity supported by presbyters in the parish of Manchester.〔 By 1662, the rector of Prestwich-cum-Oldham complied with Anglicanism, but the curate of Oldham, St Mary's was expelled for preaching nonconformism; chapels at Stand and Greenacres span virtually the whole history of non-conformity in the United Kingdom, as does a meeting-house at Royton to the Religious Society of Friends.〔 The parish remained comparatively rural until the Industrial Revolution; some townships, such as Royton, had primitive domestic manufactories and traded goods at the markets in Rochdale and Manchester. The introduction of the factory system to Oldham, Chadderton, Crompton and Royton, led to the demise of arable land via rapid urbanisation and industrialisation. This gave rise to the eastern portion as the predominant partner of the parish, despite it being under the authority of the church at Prestwich. Objections to Prestwich's dominance of the parish existed from an early time; there had been a chapel of ease at Crompton since at least the early 16th century, but, due to ecclesiastical arrangements in Prestwich-cum-Oldham, the inhabitants were obliged to contribute money towards Oldham Church, which in turn had obligation to the mother Church of St Mary the Virgin at Prestwich. On several occasions during the 15th and 16th centuries, the Archdeacon of the Diocese of Chester had to intervene because Crompton's inhabitants refused to contribute monies towards holy bread and candles used at Prestwich.〔 Prestwich-cum-Oldham was dissolved in the 20th century. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prestwich-cum-Oldham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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