Place:


Wingates  Lancashire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wingates like this:

WINGATES, a chapelry in Deane and Bolton-le-Moors parishes, Lancashire; 2 miles WSW of Bolton r. station. It was constituted in 1860; and its Post town is Bolton. Pop., 1,857. Houses, 378. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £100.* Patron, the Vicar of Deane.

Additional information about this locality is available for Westhoughton

Wingates through time

Wingates is now part of Bolton district. Click here for graphs and data of how Bolton has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wingates itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wingates, in Bolton and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24528

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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