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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sough like this:
SOUGH, a hamlet in Over-Darwen township, Lancashire; on the Bolton and Blackburn railway, 4¾ miles S of Blackburn. It has a r. station with telegraph, a good inn, two cotton-factories, an extensive firebrick-work, and two quarries.
Sough is now part of BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Sough itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sough, in Blackburn with Darwen and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25127
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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