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In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Chorley like this:
Chorley, mun. bor., market town, and par. with ry. sta., N. Lancashire, 9 miles SE. of Preston, 25 miles NE. of Liverpool, and 203 miles NW. of London, 3614 ac., pop. 19,478; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks, 3 newspapers. Market-day, Tuesday. C. is an important industrial town, carrying on mfrs. of cotton yarns, muslins, calicoes, jaconets, and ginghams. Railway waggon building is extensively prosecuted. In the neighbourhood are numerous bleachfields and print-works, and large coal mines and stone quarries.
Chorley is now part of CHORLEY District. Click here for graphs and data of how CHORLEY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Chorley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Chorley in Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Ireland through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofireland.org/place/1078
Date accessed: 15th February 2026
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