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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 SANKEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CHESTER	Cheshire	Great Crosby, Sea-forth, Waterloo, Bootle, Everton-St. George, Everton-St. Augustine, Everton-St. Chrysostom, Formby, Kirk-by, Kirkdale, Edge-Hill, Edge-Hill-St. Stephen, Edge-Hill-Innocents, Edge-Hill-St. Aidan, Aigburth, Garston, Grassendale, Hale, Halewood, Wavertree, Wavertree-St. Mary, Woolton, Knowsley, Roby, Eccleston-Christchurch, Eccleston-St. Thomas, Farnworth, St. Helen's, Parr, Rainford, Rainhill, Sankey	Imperial
  DUBLIN	Dublin	DUBLIN , the metropolis of Ireland, and a city and county of itself, in the province of LEINSTER, situated in 53	Lewis:Ireland
  GOWRAN	Kilkenny	greatly reduced by the war and the late plague. In 1650, the castle was besieged by the forces of Cromwell under Sankey	Lewis:Ireland
  HELENS (ST.)	Lancashire	Sankey canal, and the St. Helens railway, 3 miles NE by E of Prescot, and 12 ENE of Liverpool; and comprises parts of the townships of Eccleston, Windle, and Parr. It was, not long ago, a small village; but it has rapidly risen to popuilousness and importance through manufacturing and mining operations in and around it, through plentiful supply of excellent coal, and through proximity to Liverpool and the facility of canal and railway communication. It covers much ground; was, for a time, very irregularly built; includes an open square market place in its centre; contains a great	Imperial
  LANCASHIRE	Lancashire	great magnitude. The canal from St. Helens to Liverpool, formed under an act of 1755, has usually, but erroneously, been regarded as the first canal with locks ever constructed in Great Britain. The Sankey	Imperial
  LIVERPOOL	Lancashire	Sankey-brook, so as to connect Liverpool with the western part of the great coalfield of Lancashire-a plan which	Imperial
  PRESCOT	Lancashire	Great Sankey, Cuerdley, and Penketh; and is ecclesiastically cut into the sections of Prescot, Eccleston, St. Thomas, Eccleston-Christchurch, St. Helens	Imperial
  ROSS (NEW)	Wexford	ROSS (NEW) , an inland port, borough and market-town, and a parish, partly in the barony of SHELBURNE, but chiefly	Lewis:Ireland
  Sankey, Great	Lancashire	Sankey, Great , eccl. dist., township, and vil. (ry. stations Sankey, and Sankey Bridges), Prescot par., SW. Lancashire - dist., pop. 1869; township	Bartholomew
  SANKEY (Great)	Lancashire	SANKEY (Great) , a township and a chapelry in Prescot parish, Lancashire. The township lies on the Sankeycanal, the Grand Junction	Imperial
  SANKEY (Little)	Lancashire	SANKEY (Little) , a parcel in Warrington township, Lancashire; near Great Sankey.	Imperial
  WARRINGTON	Lancashire	great pile of building. The workhouse stands on an isolated spot; and includes a general hospital, a fever hospital, a lunatic ward, and a chapel.-A weekly market is held on Wednesday; fairs are held on 18th July and 30 Nov.; and there are three cotton mills, an extensive soap manufactory, a forge, iron foundries, chemical works, breweries, maltings, wire-drawing establishments, and manufactories of pins, files, tools, bar and rod iron, weighing machines, glass, and glass-bottles.-The parliamentary borough includes the townships of Warrington, Latchford, and part of Thelwall,-the latter two in Cheshire; but the municipal borough	Imperial

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