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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Dalton like this:
DALTON, a township in Wigan parish, Lancashire; near the Leeds and Liverpool canal, and the Southport and Wigan railway, 5½ miles WNW of Wigan. Acres, 2, 090. Real property, £3, 747; of which £100 are in mines. Pop., 453. Houses, 82.
Dalton is now part of WEST LANCASHIRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how WEST LANCASHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Dalton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Dalton, in West Lancashire and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10073
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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