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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"PEMBERTON, a township and chapelry in the parish of Wigan, hundred of West Derby, county Lancaster, 2½ miles W. of Wigan, its post town. It is a station on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway. The township comprises the hamlets of New Town, Smithy Brook, Robin Lane End, Goose-Green, Kit-Green, Marsh-Green, and Lamberhead-Green. There are several collieries, stone-quarries, brick-kilns, and cotton-mills, which give employment to the chief portion of the inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Chester, value £300, in the patronage of the Rector of Wigan. The church, dedicated to St. John, has a tower containing one bell. It was built in 1832. The parochial charities produce about £14 per annum, of which £7 goes to a school. There are three schools for both sexes, respectively situated at Lamberhead Green, Goose Green, and Marsh Green. Hawkeley Hall, now a farmhouse, is a timber building of great antiquity."