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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Mere Brow like this:
MERE-BROW, a village in Tarleton parish, Lancashire; 10½ miles SW of Preston. It has a Primitive Methodist chapel and a national school; and the latter is used as a chapel of ease.
Mere Brow is now part of WEST LANCASHIRE District. Click here for graphs and data of how WEST LANCASHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Mere Brow itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Mere Brow, in West Lancashire and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/26547
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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