Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Heaton, Great

Heaton, Great, township (ry. sta. Heaton Park), Prestwich par., SE. Lancashire, on river Irk, 4 miles N. of Manchester, 875 ac., pop. 376; contains Heaton Park, seat of the Earl of Wilton.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Prestwich CP/AP       Lancashire AncC
Place names: GREAT HEATON     |     HEATON     |     HEATON GREAT
Place: Great Heaton

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