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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Summerseat like this:
SUMMERSEAT, a village in Elton township, Lancashire; on the Manchester and Bacup railway, 2½ miles N of Bury. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Manchester.
Summerseat is now part of BURY District. Click here for graphs and data of how BURY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Summerseat itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Summerseat, in Bury and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/26565
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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