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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hamer like this:
HAMER, a chapelry in Rochdale parish, Lancashire; comprising a suburb of Rochdale, with several large factories. Pop., 3, 390. The living is a vicarage. Value £200. The church was built in 1867, at a cost of £5, 000.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Hamer by doing a full-text search here.
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