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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Whittingham like this:
WHITTINGHAM, a township in Kirkham parish, Lancashire; 5 miles NNE of Preston. Acres, 4,322. Real property, £4,741. Pop., 583. Houses, 195. W. House is the seat of J. L. Harrison, Esq.; and Gleadale House, of H. B. Jones, Esq. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Whittingham is now part of PRESTON District. Click here for graphs and data of how PRESTON has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Whittingham itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Whittingham, in Preston and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11032
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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