Openshaw, Manchester

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Openshaw is a suburban area in Manchester, Manchester

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Openshaw within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Openshaw in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Openshaw, town and township, Manchester par., SE. Lancashire, on SE. side of Manchester, 3½ miles from the Exchange, 579 ac., pop. 16,153; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank. The Manchester and Stockport Canal passes here. The mfr. of railway carriages and of locomotive and other engines are important industries. Dyeing, brew-ing, ironfounding, engineering, cotton mfrs., chemical mfrs., &c., are other employments.

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