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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  HOOLE LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	CHESTER MB/CB (Local Government District)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "HOOLE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ABINGER	Surrey	Hoole, the translator of Ariosto; and it gives the title of Baron to the family of Scarlett. The parish is overhung	Imperial
  AMWELL (Great)	Hertfordshire	Hoole, the translator of Tasso, was a resident. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £310.* Patrons	Imperial
  Bishop-Stortford	Hertfordshire	trade in grain and malt; the birthplace of Chauncy (1632-1719), historian of Hertfordshire, and Hoole (1727-1803), translator of Tasso.	Bartholomew
  DORKING	Surrey	Hoole, the translator of Tasso and Ariosto. St. Paul's church was built in 1857, and enlarged in 1869; and is in the early	Imperial
  Hoole	Cheshire	Hoole .-- township, Plemonstall and St John the Baptist pars., Cheshire, mostly in Chester parl. bor.- township, 750 ac., pop. 3062; local	Bartholomew
  Hoole	Lancashire	Hoole , par. and vil. with ry. sta., N. Lancashire, 7 miles SW. of Preston, 2999 ac. (52 water), p op. 1021.	Bartholomew
  HOOLE	Cheshire	HOOLE , a village and a township in Plemonstall parish, Cheshire. The village stands near the Chester and Manchester railway, 2¼ miles	Imperial
  HOOLE	Lancashire	HOOLE , a village, two townships, and a parish in Preston district, Lancashire. The village is Much Hoole; stands near the river	Imperial
  Hoole, Little, and Hoole, Much	Lancashire	Hoole, Little , and Hoole, Much , 2 townships, Hoole par., N. Lancashire - L. H., 1223 ac. (22 water), pop. 440; M. H., 1776 ac. (30 water	Bartholomew
  LONDON	London London	Hoole. Moorfields; J. Hoppner; Bishop Horsley; J. Howard, Enfield; Abbot Ingulphus; Jane of the Tower, daughter of Edward II.; S. Jenyns	Imperial
  LONGTON	Lancashire	charities £29.—The sub-district comprises the parishes of Penwortham and Hoole. Acres, 14,240. Pop., 6,620. Houses, 1,204.	Imperial
  MANCHESTER	Lancashire Manchester	Hoole, Rufford, Standish, and Tarleton; the vicarage of Leyland; and the p. curacies of Chorley-St. George, Chorley-St. Peter	Imperial
  Much Hoole	Lancashire	Hoole , township and vil. (ry. sta. Hoole), Hoole par., N. Lancashire, 7 miles SW. of Preston, 1776 ac. (30 water	Bartholomew
  Plemonstall (or Plemstall)	Cheshire	Plemonstall (or Plemstall ), par., Cheshire, on NE. side of Chester city (containing part of Hoole), 3131 ac., pop. 1136.	Bartholomew
  PLEMONSTALL, or Plemstall	Cheshire	Hoole, Mickle-Trafford, Bridge-Trafford, and Pickton; and its post town is Chester. Acres, 3, 134. Real property, £10, 885. Pop. in 1851, 877; in 1861, 2,019. Houses	Imperial
  PRESTON	Lancashire	Hoole and Penwortham; the sub-district of Walton-le-Dale, containing the Blackburn townships of Walton-le-Dale, Cuerdale, and Samlesbury	Imperial

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