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Tyldesley was constituted a civil parish in 1866. [53] In 1863 the Local Government Act 1858 was adopted and the township was governed by a local board of health. The first Tyldesley Local Board was formed after elections on 24 October 1863.
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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Tyldesley like this: TYLDESLEY, a town, and a township-chapelry, in Leigh parish, Lancashire.
On the eastern side of the parish church, across School Street is the site of the original parish school. The building as a school had a 170 year life opening in 1829, celebrating 150 years in 1979 and finally moving to a new site in 1999.
Tyldesley became a district parish in August 1829. On the last day of 1833 the curate, the Reverend Jacob Robson, writing in the parish registers, signalled the change in the spelling of the township name from Tildesley to Tyldesley .
- The Roman Road, C. 200 A.D.
- The Two Amphorae
- The Coins of Postumus, Victorinus, and Tetricus
- The Candle of History, 200-1200 A.D.
The area occupied by the township of Tyldesley to-day was in Roman times part of the territory of the Brigantes. The location was important, for the site lay in the triangle marked by the military stations of Manchester, Warrington, and Wigan. A Roman road ran through Tyldesley and was traceable a hundred years ago just south of Keeper Delph, where...
In the year 1947 two gardeners, George Bailey and Alfred Grundy, were digging in the Delph not far distant from this ancient road, when they uncovered a flag beneath which were two urns, set about the depth of a foot. The amphorae contained about 600 Roman coins.
The bronze coins were minted by four emperors. The earliest are those of Postumus, who as Governor of Gaul under Valerian made himself puppet emperor in 259 A.D. He was followed by his general Victorinus, who ruled in Gaul and Britain until his assassination in 270 A.D. Then Tetricus succeeded: he gave his namesake son the rank of Caesar and both a...
After the disclosure of the Roman urns, there is nothing for 1,000 years to trace out the steps of destiny in these parts. Everything is blank and dark. The candle of history lit by the Roman-Celts flickers out until the scribes of Cockersand Abbey in north Lancashire relight it in the reign of King John. When the shadows begin to retreat there is ...
Following the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain, Tyldesley was part of the manor of Warrington, until the Norman conquest of England, when the settlement constituted a township called Tyldesley-with-Shakerley in the ancient parish of Leigh.
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On April 23, 1822 the foundation stone of a new parish church was laid in Tyldesley. In 1825 when the spire of ‘St George’s’ eventually reached the dizzy height of 150 feet above the local streets, the panoramic view enjoyed by that intrepid mason putting the finishing touches to the church would have been somewhat different from that ...
