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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Diggle like this:
DIGGLE, a hamlet with a railway station in W. R. Yorkshire; on the Sheffield and Manchester railway, at the SW end of the Marsden tunnel, 3½ miles SW of Marsden.
Diggle is now part of OLDHAM District. Click here for graphs and data of how OLDHAM has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Diggle itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Diggle, in Oldham and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20894
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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