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Hindley, Lancashire

Historical Description

Hindley, a town, a township, and two ecclesiastical parishes in Wigan parish, Lancashire. The town stands adjacent to the Wigan and Bolton railway, 2¼ miles ESE of Wigan and 7 from Bolton, is a seat of cotton manufacture, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wigan, four railway stations, two churches, and Particular Baptist, Free, Primitive, and Independent Methodist, Wesleyan, Congregational, Presbyterian, Unitarian, and Roman Catholic chapels, a cemetery of 14 acres formed in 1879, an endowed grammar school founded in 1632 and reopened in 1881 under a scheme of the Endowed School Commissioners, and a fair on the first Thursday of Aug. There are extensive collieries and a large and prosperous co-operative store. There is a good service of trams on the Wigan and District Tramway between Wigan and Hindley. There is also a beautiful public park situated on the south-west side of the town. All Saints Church was built in 1766 on the site of a previous edifice; is a plain brick structure, and contains a font and mural monuments. St Peter's Church was built in 1864; is a handsome edifice in the Decorated style; and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with porches and a lofty tower and spire. The township is returned statistically as conterminate with the town, and is governed by a local board; includes the hamlets of Low Green or Platt Bridge and Hindley Green, which have stations on the Wigan and Eccles railway, 1½ and 3½ miles from Wigan, and the hamlet of Hindley Common. Hindley Green has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wigan. There is also the Leyland Free Library and Museum, erected by Nathaniel Eckersley, Esq., in memory of John Leyland of the-Grange, Hindley, 1887. The building is the largest in the town, and is of the Decorated style. Acreage of the township, 2611; population, 18, 973. The ecclesiastical parishes are All Saints and St Peter's; populations, 12, 203 and 6770 respectively. The livings are vicarages in the diocese of Liverpool; net value of All Saints, £440 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Wigan. Gross value of St Peter's,, £306.

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 parishWigan 
HundredWest Derby 
Poor Law unionWigan 

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.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hindley from the following:


Land and Property

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


Maps

Online maps of Hindley 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:

DistrictWigan
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland
Postal districtWN2
Post TownWigan

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