Astley
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ASTLEY, orEast Leigh, a township-chapelry in Leigh parish, Lancashire; near the Bridgewater canal and the Manchester and Liverpool railway, 8½ miles W of Manchester. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Manchester. Acres, 2,628. Real property, £11,967,-of which £5,000 are in mines. Pop., 2,109. Houses, 437. There are collieries and a large cotton mill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £250.* Patron, the Vicar of Leigh. The church is modern, and has been thrice enlarged There are a Wesleyan chapel, a free grammar school, a national school, and some small charities.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Wigan library.Cemeteries
- St Stephen, Manchester Road, Church of England
Census
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Church Records
- St Stephen, Manchester Road, Church of England
- Manchester Road, Independent Methodist
- Presbyterian
- St Ambrose Barlow, Manchester Rd, Roman Catholic
- Manchester Rd, Unitarian
- Lower Green Lane, Wesleyan Methodist
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