Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WINGATES

WINGATES, a chapelry in Deane and Bolton-le-Moors parishes, Lancashire; 2 miles WSW of Bolton r. station. It was constituted in 1860; and its Post town is Bolton. Pop., 1,857. Houses, 378. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £100.* Patron, the Vicar of Deane.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC
Place: Wingates

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