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PARKSIDE, a place in the S of Lancashire; on the Liverpool and Manchester railway, at the junction of the Newton and Wigan railway, 1 mile E S E of Newton. It has a station at the railway junction; and it was the scene of the death of Huskisson, at the opening of the railway, and has a tablet to his memory.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a place" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Lancashire Ancient County |
| Place: | Parkside |
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