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2. Aspull - Wikipedia

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   Aspull is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, Aspull, along with Haigh, is surrounded by greenbelt and agricultural land, separated from Westhoughton, on its southeast side, by a brook running through Borsdane Wood.

3. Haigh, Greater Manchester - Wikipedia

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   Haigh ( / heɪ /) is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. [2] Historically part of Lancashire, it is located next to the village of Aspull. The western boundary is the River Douglas, which separates the township from Wigan. To the north, a small brook running into the Douglas divides it ...

4. Gidlow Hall - Wikipedia

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   Gidlow Hall is a scheduled ancient monument dating from 1574 in Aspull, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester. [1] [2] The great hall was the residence of the Gidlow family, whose members included Robert de Gidlow, freeholder of Aspull in 1291. Members of the family were recorded in the village until the 17th century. [3]

5. Listed buildings in Aspull - Wikipedia

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   Listed buildings in Aspull. Aspull is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The village and the surrounding countryside contain 21 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade ...

6. Salford Hundred - Wikipedia

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   Salford Hundred. The Salford Hundred (also known as Salfordshire) [1] was one of the subdivisions of the historic county of Lancashire in Northern England (see: Hundred (county division). Its name alludes to its judicial centre being the township of Salford (the suffix - shire meaning the territory was appropriated to the prefixed settlement).

7. List of collieries in Lancashire since 1854 - Wikipedia

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   Lancashire miners used terms in different ways to other coal mining areas. A mine in Lancashire refers to a coal seam, so the Doe mine refers to the Doe seam. The term pit was used for the shaft sunk to the access the mine and the term colliery was used to describe the whole of the surface area including the headgear, wash-houses, offices ...

8. Metropolitan Borough of Wigan - Wikipedia

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   The metropolitan borough was created from a highly industrialised area of Lancashire that was part of the Lancashire Coalfield and had an important textile industry. Geography. Wigan borough covers an area of 77 square miles (200 km 2), and is the 9th-largest metropolitan borough (out of 36) in England. The borough is the most north western in ...

9. Pennington, Greater Manchester - Wikipedia

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   Pennington, Greater Manchester. Pennington, a suburb of Leigh, Greater Manchester is one of six townships in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Leigh, [1] that with Westleigh and Bedford merged to form the town of Leigh in 1875. The township of Pennington covered most of Leigh's town centre.