Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Butterworth was a township occupying the southeastern part of the parish of Rochdale, in the hundred of Salford, Lancashire, England. It encompassed 12.1 square miles (31 km2) of land by the South Pennines which spanned the settlements of Belfield, Bleaked-gate-cum-Roughbank, Butterworth Hall, Clegg, Firgrove, Haughs, Hollingworth, Lowhouse, Milnrow, Newhey, Ogden, Rakewood, Smithy Bridge, Tunshill and Wildhouse. Butterworth Hall, Clegg Hall, Butterworth Moor and Clegg Moor were also within the bounds of Butterworth.Butterworth is traced to the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the Early Middle Ages. Its land was divided into two classifications — Butterworth Freehold and Butterworth Lordship — referring to the ancient terms of tenure, some freehold, some of the Lord of the Manor by various rents and services. In 1830, Butterworth was recorded to have 5,554 inhabitants.Milnrow, a chapelry along the River Beal, emerged as Butterworth's largest settlement during the Early Modern period, so much so that its name gradually supplanted that of Butterworth. The Industrial Revolution and construction of the Rochdale Canal, combined with urbanisation, population shifts, and local government reforms contributed towards the dissolution of Butterworth in 1894; its social welfare functions were broadly superseded by the English Poor Laws and new units of local governance, such as the County Borough of Rochdale and the Milnrow Urban District. Today, the territory of the former township lies entirely within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester.. }
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- Butterworth_(ancient_township) abstract "Butterworth was a township occupying the southeastern part of the parish of Rochdale, in the hundred of Salford, Lancashire, England. It encompassed 12.1 square miles (31 km2) of land by the South Pennines which spanned the settlements of Belfield, Bleaked-gate-cum-Roughbank, Butterworth Hall, Clegg, Firgrove, Haughs, Hollingworth, Lowhouse, Milnrow, Newhey, Ogden, Rakewood, Smithy Bridge, Tunshill and Wildhouse. Butterworth Hall, Clegg Hall, Butterworth Moor and Clegg Moor were also within the bounds of Butterworth.Butterworth is traced to the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the Early Middle Ages. Its land was divided into two classifications — Butterworth Freehold and Butterworth Lordship — referring to the ancient terms of tenure, some freehold, some of the Lord of the Manor by various rents and services. In 1830, Butterworth was recorded to have 5,554 inhabitants.Milnrow, a chapelry along the River Beal, emerged as Butterworth's largest settlement during the Early Modern period, so much so that its name gradually supplanted that of Butterworth. The Industrial Revolution and construction of the Rochdale Canal, combined with urbanisation, population shifts, and local government reforms contributed towards the dissolution of Butterworth in 1894; its social welfare functions were broadly superseded by the English Poor Laws and new units of local governance, such as the County Borough of Rochdale and the Milnrow Urban District. Today, the territory of the former township lies entirely within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester.".