Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Pemberton

Pemberton, town and township with ry. sta., Wigan par., SW. Lancashire, 2½ miles W. of Wigan, 2894 ac., pop. 13,762; P.O., T.O.; has brickworks and cotton mills; coal mines are in the neighbourhood.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "town and township with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Pemberton CP/Tn       Wigan CP/Tn/AP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Pemberton

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