Adlington
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ADLINGTON, a township and a chapelry in Standish parish, Lancashire. The township lies on the Bolton and Preston railway, near the Leeds and Liverpool canal, 3½ miles SE of Chorley; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Chorley. Cotton manufacture is carried on; and coal mines were formerly worked, but are exhausted. Acres, 1,062. Real property, £4,324. Pop., 1,975. Houses, 369. The chapelry was constituted in 1842, and is more extensive than the township. Pop., 3,331. Houses, 630. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £150.* Patron, the Rector of Standish. The church was built in 1838, and is in the Norman style. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Chorley library.Cemeteries
- Chapel St, Cemetery
- Christ Church, Church St, Church of England
- St Paul, Railway Road, Church of England
Census
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Church Records
- Christ Church, Church St, Church of England
- St Paul, Railway Road, Church of England
- St Philip's Protestant Mission, Mayfield Ave formerly Golborne St, Church of England
- Railway Road, Congregational
- Railway Road, Methodist
- Park Rd, Primitive Methodist
- Market St, Wesleyan Methodist
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Civil Registration
The Register Office covering the Adlington area is Chorley.Gazetteers
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In 1835 Adlington was a township in the parish of Standish.Gazetteers
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