Tyldesley-cum-Shakerley

"TYLDESLEY-CUM-SHAKERLEY, a township and ecclesiastical district in the parish of Leigh, hundred of West Derby, county Lancaster, 10 miles N.W. of Manchester. It is a station on the Manchester and Preston section of the London and North-Western railway, where the Leigh and Bolton branches turn off. This township, which has recently increased in wealth and population, contained in 1861, 6,029 inhabitants, the greater part of whom are engaged in the cotton and silk mills, and in the neighbouring collieries, which are considerable. In 1827 the township was separated from Leigh and erected into a distinct parish, as regards ecclesiastical affairs, but in other respects may still be considered a part of the town of Leigh (which see)."