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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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THORNTON-LE-MOORS, a parish, with five townships, in Great Boughton district, Cheshire; 1½ mile WNW of Dunham r. station, and 6 NNE of Chester. It contains Dunham-on-the-Hill, which has a post-office under Preston-Brook. Acres, 4,866. Real property, £8,156. Pop., 913. Houses, 158. T. manor belongs to G.Legh, Esq.; and Dunham manor, to the Earl of Shrewsbury. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chester. Value, £600.* Patrons, Hulme's Trustees. The parochial church is later English; and a church at Dunham was built in 1862. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, a national school, and charities £31.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with five townships" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Thornton le Moors CP/AP Great Boughton PLU Cheshire AncC |
| Place: | Thornton le Moors |
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