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"HOLLINGWORTH, a township in the parish of MOTTRAM in LONGDEN-DALE, hundred of MACCLESFIELD, county palatine of CHESTER, 8 miles (E. N. E.) from Stockport, containing 1393 inhabitants. About thirty years ago Hollingworth was but an agricultural district with few inhabitants: there are now extensive manufactories for cotton goods, paper, and machinery, also for the printing of calico, and a foundry for smelting metals." [From Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831) ©Mel Lockie]
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- Hollingworth was a township in Mottram-in-Longdendale ancient parish, Macclesfield hundred (SK 0196), which became a civil parish in 1866.
- The civil parish was abolished in 1936 to become part of Longdendale.
- It included the hamlet of Hodgefold.
- The population was 910 in 1801, 2347 in 1851, and 2447 in 1901.
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| Lord Street, Hollingworth, Congregationalist |
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- 1936 April 1 — Abolished and incorporated into Longdendale (2086 acres, pop. 2299 in 1931)
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- Ashton-under-Lyne Rural Sanitary District (1875-94)
- Tintwistle Rural District (1894-1936)