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ASHTON-IN-MACKERFIELD, or Ashton-le-Wlllows, a village and a township in Wigan district, and a parish partly also in Warrington district, Lancashire. The village stands 2½ miles NW of Newton, and 3 WNW of Golborne r. station; and has a post office,‡ of the name of Ashton-in-Mackerfield, under Warrington. The township has long been noted for the manufacture of hinges, locks, files, and nails; and is maintained also by cotton factories and coalmines. Acres, 5,557. Real property, £28,364,-of which £13,065 are in mines. Pop. in 1851,. 5,679; in 1861, 6,566. Houses, 1,176.—The parish includes also the township of Haydock, and comprises 7,919 acres. Real property, £42,630,-of which £20,893 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 7,673; in 1861, 10,181. Houses, 1,777. There are two livings, or ecclesiastically two parishes, Holy Trinity and St. Thomas, the former a rectory, the latter a vicarage, in the diocese of Chester. Value of H. T., £550;* of St. T., £245.* Patron of H. T., the Earl of Derby; of St. T., the Rector. H. T'. church is near the hamlets of Downhall-Green and North Ashton, where is a post office under Wigan; and St. T church. is in the village of Ashton. There is also a vicar age of St. James', Haydock. There are likewise a hand some Independent chapel built in 1867, three other dis senting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, an endowed. school with £33, and charities £97.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a township" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Warrington RegD/PLU Lancashire AncC |
| Place names: | ASHTON IN MACKERFIELD | ASHTON IN MACKERFIELD OR ASHTON LE WLLLOWS | ASHTON LE WLLLOWS |
| Place: | Ashton in Makerfield |
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