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CHARNOCK-HEATH, a township in Standish parish, Lancashire; on the Bolton and Preston railway, at Adlington station, 2½ miles SE by S of Chorley. Acres, 1,596. Real property, £4,207; of which £450 are in mines, and £280 in quarries. Pop., 772. Houses, 150. There are brickworks and a cotton-mill.
John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
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Local studies information is held at Chorley library.
Details about the census records, and indexes for Heath Charnock.
The Register Office covering the Heath Charnock area is Chorley.
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"HEATH CHARNOCK, a township in the parish of Standish, hundred of Leyland, in the county of Lancaster, 2 miles S.E. of Chorley."
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In 1835 Heath Charnock was a township in the parish of Standish.
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For probate purposes prior to 1858, Heath Charnock was in the Archdeaconry of Chester, in the Diocese of Chester. The original Lancashire wills for the Archdeaconry of Chester are held at the Lancashire Record Office.
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