Below you will find information about the county of Lancashire and about St. Chad's, the mother church of the Parish in Rochdale. I hope this information will give you a better feel for where our ancestor, Charles, came from. It is 75 miles in length, and 30 in breadth.
Grazing is more attended to than agriculture.
The fisheries, both in the rivers and the sea, are valuable. As a commercial and manufacturing county, Lancashire is distinguished beyond most others in the kingdom. Of the commerce of this county, it may suffice to observe, that Liverpool is now the second port in the United Kingdom. The principal rivers are the Mersey, Irwell, Ribble, Lune, Leven, Wyre, Hodder, Roche, Duddon, Winster, Kent, and Calder, and it has two considerable lakes. Windermere and Coniston Water.