Westhoughton
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HOUGHTON (WEST), a village, a township, a chapelry, and a sub-district in Deane parish, Bolton district, Lancashire. The village stands near the Bolton and Wigan railway, 5 miles SW by W of Bolton; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, a post office under Bolton, a police station, and fairs on 27 Feb. and 12 Oct. The township comprises 4,460 acres. Real property, £16,679; of which £2,790 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 4,547; in 1861, 5,156. Houses, 1,064. The land belongs chiefly to five. There are collieries, two silk factories, cotton mills, and a nail manufactory. The chapelry is less extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1860. Pop., 3,879. Houses, 806. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £170. Patron, the Vicar of Deane. The church was rebuilt in 1731; and re-rebuilt, at a cost of £5,500, in 1869-70. There are chapels for Independents, Quakers, and Methodists, and a national school. The sub-district is conterminate with the township.John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and libraries
Local studies information is held at Bolton library.Cemeteries
- Cemetery St, Cemetery
- St James, St James Street, Church of England, Daisy Hill
- St Bartholomew, School Street, Church of England
- St John the Evangelist, Chorley Road, Church of England, Wingates
- Bethel, Park Rd, Independent
- Wigan Rd, Society of Friends
Census
Details about the census records, and indexes for Westhoughton.Church History
Church Records
- St James, St James Street, Church of England, Daisy Hill
- St Bartholomew, School Street, Church of England
- St John the Evangelist, Chorley Road, Church of England, Wingates
- King Street, Evangelical Church
- Wigan Rd, Gospel Hall
- Bethel, Park Rd, Independent
- Dixon St, Independent Methodist, Wingates
- Bolton Rd, Pentecostal
- Hindley Road, Primitive Methodist
- Wigan Rd, Primitive Methodist
- Sacred Heart of Jesus, Lord Street, Roman Catholic
- Wigan Rd, Society of Friends
- Trinity, Church St, Wesleyan Methodist
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