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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a township, in the parish of Eccleston, union of Wigan, hundred of Leyland, N. division of Lancashire, 5 miles (N. W.) from Wigan, on the road to Ormskirk; containing 1771 inhabitants. …
Survey of London Monograph
… claimed descent from the Brookes of Leighton, Cheshire; b. Wigan c. 1553; educated at Merchant Taylors' School; …