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Adlington, Lancashire

Historical Description

Adlington, a township, a village, and a parish in Lancashire, with stations on the L. & Y.R. and L. & N.W.R., and near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 3 miles SE of Chorley, and with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Chorley. Cotton manufacture is carried on, also calico printing and bleaching. Acreage of the township, 1064; population of the whole parish, 5975; of the township of Adlington alone, 4190. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The present parish church was built in 1883, and will seat 700 persons. The old church, erected in 1839, is used as a chapel of ease. There are Wesleyan, Congregational, and Primitive Methodist chapels, and two schools. The parish also comprises the townships of Anderton, Duxbury, and Heath Charnock.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyLancashire 
Civil parishStandish 
HundredLeyland 
Poor Law unionChorley 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Adlington from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Adlington are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Lancashire newspapers online:

DistrictChorley
CountyLancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtPR6
Post TownChorley

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