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BREIGHTMET, a township in Bolton-le-Moors parish Lancashire; 2½ miles E of Bolton. Acres, 970. Real property, £6,627; of which £1,504 are in mines. Pop., 1,562. Houses, 295. Cotton manufacture is carried on; and there is a church of 1855, a Wesleyan chapel, and an endowed school with 26 a year.

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

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• St James, St James Ave, Church of England

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• Red Lane, Apostolic Church

• Bright Meadows, Winchester Way, Christian Fellowship

• St James, St James Ave, Church of England

• St Osmund, Long Lane, Roman Catholic

• Red Lane, United Reformed

• Bury Rd, Wesleyan Methodist
• Trinity, Bury Road, Wesleyan Methodist

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