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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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GREENALGH (or GREENHALGH) WITH THISTLETON, a township in Kirkham parish, Lancashire; gear the Fleetwood railway, 3 miles NW of Kirkham. It includes Esprick hamlet; and has ruins of a castle, said to have been built by the first Earl of Derby, and seeming to have comprised seven or einht towers of much heinht and strength. Acres, 1,821. Real property, £4, 082. Pop., 383. Houses, 75. There is an Independent chapel.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Kirkham CP/AP Lancashire AncC |
| Place: | Greenhalgh |
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