Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Sankey, Great

Sankey, Great, eccl. dist., township, and vil. (ry. stations Sankey, and Sankey Bridges), Prescot par., SW. Lancashire - dist., pop. 1869; township, 1923 ac., pop. 630; vil., on Sankey Canal, 2 miles "W. of Warrington; P.O. at Sankey Bridges.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "ecclesiastical district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Prescot AP/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place names: GREAT SANKEY     |     SANKEY     |     SANKEY GREAT
Place: Great Sankey

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