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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wingates like this:
WINGATES, a chapelry in Deane and Bolton-le-Moors parishes, Lancashire; 2 miles WSW of Bolton r. station. It was constituted in 1860; and its Post town is Bolton. Pop., 1,857. Houses, 378. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £100.* Patron, the Vicar of Deane.
Wingates is now part of BOLTON District. Click here for graphs and data of how BOLTON has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wingates itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wingates, in Bolton and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24528
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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