Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NEWTOWN

NEWTOWN, a hamlet in Worsley township, Eccles parish, Lancashire; 3 miles N E of Worsley. The cotton manufacture is carried on; and there is an iron foundry.


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

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Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC

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