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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Whitechapel like this:
WHITECHAPEL, a chapelry in Kirkham parish, Lancashire; 5 miles SSE of Garstang r. station. It was constituted in 1846; and its Post town is Preston. Pop., 646. Houses, 129. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £156. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is tolerable.
Whitechapel is now part of PRESTON District. Click here for graphs and data of how PRESTON has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Whitechapel itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Whitechapel, in Preston and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24527
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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