Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Heskin

Heskin, township, Eccleston par., N. Lancashire, 4½ miles SW. of Chorley, 1242 ac., pop. 382; coalmines are in the vicinity.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC
Place: Heskin

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