Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HULTON (MIDDLE)

HULTON (MIDDLE), a township in Deane parish, Lancashire; near the Bolton and Leigh railway, 3½ miles SSW of Bolton. Acres, 1, 280. Real property, £6, 446; of which £3, 591 are in mines, and £100 in quarries. Pop., 790. Houses, 157. The manor belongs to the Earl of Ellesmere. Leigh's charities here yield £67 a year.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC
Place names: HULTON     |     HULTON MIDDLE     |     MIDDLE HULTON
Place: Middle Hulton

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