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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  GREAT LEVER LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	BOLTON MB/CB (Local Government District)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "GREAT LEVER":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BOLTON	Lancashire	Lever subdistrict, containing Great Lever and Darcy Lever townships and Little Lever chapelry. Acres, 43,896. Poor-rates in 1866, £39,825. Pop. in 1861, 130,269. Houses	Imperial
  BOLTON-LE-MOORS	Lancashire	Great Bolton, Little Bolton, Sharples, Quarlton, Edgeworth, Entwistle, Longworth, Turton, Bradshaw, Haulgh, Tonge, Breightmet, Harwood, Lostock, Darcy-Lever, Blackrod, Anglezarke	Imperial
  LANCASHIRE	Lancashire	Great Harwood, Haslingden, Heywood, Hindley, Kirkham, Leigh, Lytham, Middleton, Much Woolton, Newchurch, Newton-in-Mackerfield, Ormskirk, Over Darwen, Padiham, Prescot, St. Helens, Southport, Todmorden, Tyldesley, Ulverston, and Widnes. There are nearly 900 smaller towns, villages, and hamlets. The chief seats in the county are Knowsley Park, Heaton Park, Holker Hall, Croxteth Park, Worsley Hall, Latham House, Haigh Hall, Atherton, Kenyon-Peel Hall, Knowle, Ashton Hall, Middleton, New Hall, Old Hall, Bold, Rossall Hall, Trafford Hall, Gawthorpe Hall, Garswood Hall, West Hey House, Feniscowles Hall, Hazles, Abbots-Wood, Acres House, Adlington Hall, Aldcliffe Hall, Alder Grange, Alkincoates, Alkrington, Aldingham Hall, Allerton	Imperial
  LEVER	Lancashire	LEVER , a sub-district in Bolton district, Lancashire; containing the townships of Great Lever and Darcylever, and the chapelry of Little	Imperial
  Lever, Great	Lancashire	Lever, Great , township, Middleton par., SE. Lancashire, 1½ mile SE. of Bolton, 1867 ac., pop. 3673.	Bartholomew
  LEVER (GREAT)	Lancashire	LEVER (GREAT) , a township-chapelry, with a village, in Middleton parish, Lancashire; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, near the Bolton	Imperial
  LIVERPOOL	Lancashire	lever or liver; and this opinion is supported by an appeal to the borough arms, the crest of which is a bird, alleged to be the lever or liver. No such bird as the lever, however, is known to exist in nature; and the bird on the corporation seal, as given in Gregson's " Fragments of the History of Lancashire, " is rudely figured, presents no resemblance to any of the aquatic species, was thought by Mr. Gregson to represent an eagle, and may, like other symbols of heraldry and ornament, have been altogether a creature of the imagination. The pool	Imperial
  MIDDLETON	Lancashire	Great Lever township in Bolton district, and the townships of Hopwood, Pilsworth, Ashworth, and Birtle-cum-Bamford in Bury district	Imperial

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