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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
WALTON (Higher), a chapelry in Walton-le-Dale township, Lancashire; 2¾ miles E by N of Preston r. station. It was constituted in 1864; and its Post town is Preston. Pop., about 2,000. There are a cotton factory, print-works, and a foundry. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £150. Patron, alternately the Bishop of M. and the Vicar of Blackburn. The church was built in 1863, at a cost of £4,000; and is in the early English style. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.
(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 names: | HIGHER WALTON | WALTON | WALTON HIGHER |
| Place: | Higher Walton |
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