Failsworth (GB)
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Failsworth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England.
Failsworth until the 19th century was a farming township linked ecclesiastically with Manchester. Inhabitants supplemented their farming income with domestic hand-loom weaving. The humid climate and abundant labour and coal led to weaving of textiles as a Lancashire Mill Town with redbrick cotton mills.
Failsworth derives from the Old English fegels and worth, probably meaning an "enclosure with a special kind of fence".Unmentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Failsworth appears in a record of 1212 as Fayleswrthe, a settlement was documented as a thegnage estate or manor comprising four oxgangs of land. Two oxgangs at an annual rate of 4 shillings were payable by the tenant, Gilbert de Notton, to Adam de Prestwich, who in turn paid tax to King John.
