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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described West Gorton like this:
GORTON (West), a chapelry in Gorton township, Lancashire; constituted in 1865. It contains the Bellevue gardens, and has a post-office under Manchester. reading room s, and a Franciscan convent. Pop., 4, 305. The living is a rectory. The church was built in 1866, and is in the early English style.
West Gorton is now part of MANCHESTER District. Click here for graphs and data of how MANCHESTER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about West Gorton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of West Gorton, in Manchester and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22750
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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