Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Hindley

Hindley, township and. sta., in par. and 2½ miles SE. of Wigan, SW. Lancashire, 2611 ac., pop. 14,715; P.O., T.O.; has extensive coal mines, and is a local government district.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hindley Tn/CP/Ch       Wigan CP/Tn/AP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Hindley

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