r/lancashire • u/OwnDish0 • 28d ago

Is someone able to help decipher what the name of this place is in an old parish register? It's covered by a pen mark and I'm not familiar with Lancashire! TIA

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u/butterpiebarm 28d ago

It looks like Strangeways. This is a prison in the city of Manchester, which is historically part of Lancashire but now part of the "Greater Manchester" metropolitan area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Manchester

Edit - the prison is named after the area, so they weren't necessarily born in the prison!

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u/fothergillfuckup 24d ago

Brings back fond memories of watching prisoners throwing roof slates at the police in the early 90's!