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A History of the County of Lancaster
… Horsemarket Street, and Winwick Street, to Winwick and Wigan; it crosses the former road near the highest land of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… William Fletcher, then a recusant, now the schoolmaster at Wigan'; Gibson, Lydiate Hall, 258, quoting S. P. Dom. Eliz. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… corner. The population in 1901 numbered 105. The road from Wigan to Preston cuts through the edge of the township; from …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… near the centre of the township, on the crooked road from Wigan, through Hindley and Hart Common, to Bolton. From the … Sefton see further in the accounts of Ince and Aspull in Wigan. The abbot was to render 1 d. to the chief lord for all … Adam de Hindley, and in 1306 was wounded in an affray at Wigan; Assize R. no. 421, m. 1 d. William and Robert de …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… a more southerly course through Lowton and Pennington. The Wigan and Leigh branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal runs … the London and North-Western Railway. The Manchester and Wigan section of the same railway runs through the northern … to the predecessor of John Hodson Kearsley, M.P. for Wigan (18312 and 18357), whose executors conveyed his estates …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Taylor, one of the king's preachers and curate-incharge of Wigan. This is a specimen of the worst kind of controversy, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… states that it had been given by 'Thomas Willis of Wigan, the author's only Willis cousin.' Some letters from … his estates in Prescot, Huyton, Standish, Bolton, Eccles, Wigan, Wigan Woodhouses, and Ireland, under different limitations, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… in Whittle, Walton-le-Dale, Heath Charnock, Howick and Wigan; Kuerden, loc. cit. His wife Clemency occurs. In 1401 … of the Crosse family is given under the townships of Wigan and Chorley; see also Foster, Lancs. Ped. a Sir Richard …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… was buried at Farnworth. His son William was a curate of Wigan. Lancs. and Ches. Rec. loc. cit. Plundered Mins. Accts. …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Townships Wigan WIGAN Wigan, 1199; Wygayn, 1240; Wygan, common. Pronounced Wiggin ( … the north and turned to the west round the hill upon which Wigan Church stands, thence running north-westward and …