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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"WRIGHTINGTON, a township and ecclesiastical district in the parish of Eccleston, hundred of Leyland, county Lancaster, 5 miles N.W. of Wigan, and half a mile from Appley Bridge railway station. It is situated near the Liverpool canal and the river Douglas. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in cotton spinning and in the collieries. The principal residences are Wrightlington Hall and Harrock Hall, the former an old seat of the Scarisbrick family. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Manchester, value £110, in the patronage of the Rector of Eccleston. The Roman Catholics, Independents, and Primitive Methodists have chapels."