A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
PILKINGTON, a township in Prestwich parish, and a sub-district in Bury district, Lancashire. The township lies adjacent to the river Irwell and the East Lancashire railway, 5¼ miles N N W of Manchester; is cut into the three sections of Outwood, Unsworth, and Whitefieldor Stand; contains the hamlets of Ringley, Cinderhill, Blackford, and Hollins; is supplied with water from the Bury waterworks, and with gas from the Radcliffe and Pilkington gas-works; has a post-office of Whitefield, ‡under Manchester; carries on industry in coal mines, several large cotton factories, bleach-works, and dye-works; and contains the churches of Ringley, Unsworth, and Stand, seven dissenting chapels, two endowed grammar schools, and two national schools. Acres, 5, 378. Real property, £41, 765; of which £2, 837 are in mines, and £28 in iron-works. Pop. in 1851, 12, 863; in 1861, 12, 303. Houses, 2, 506. The manor belongs to the Earl of Derby. Outwood Park and Outwood Lodge arechief residences. The sub-district is nearly identicalwith the township, differing only in excluding two smalluninhabited portions.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Pilkington CP/Tn Prestwich CP/AP Bury RegD/PLU Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Pilkington |
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