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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Burnage like this:
BURNAGE, a township in Manchester parish, Lancashire; on the river Mersey, adjacent to the Manchester and Sheffield railway, 4 miles S of Manchester. Acres, 658. Real property, £3,741. Pop., 624. Houses, 120.
Burnage is now part of MANCHESTER District. Click here for graphs and data of how MANCHESTER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Burnage itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Burnage, in Manchester and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22463
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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