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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wrightington like this:
WRIGHTINGTON, a township-chapelry in Eccleston parish, Lancashire; at Appleby-Bridge r. station, and 4 miles NW of Wigan. It has a post-office under Wigan. Acres, 3,876. Real property, £7,423; of which £41 are in quarries. Pop., 1,618. Houses, 305. W. Hall is the seat of T. Dicconson, Esq.; and Harrock Hall, of Mrs. Bolton. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £128. Patron, the Rector of Eccleston. The church was built in 1857. There are Independent, Primitive Methodist, and Roman Catholic chapels.
Wrightington 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 Wrightington itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wrightington, in West Lancashire and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11060
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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