Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Hollingworth

Hollingworth, place with school, on E. border of SE. Lancashire, 3 miles NE. of Rochdale; Hollingworth Lake is a great resort of pleasure-seekers.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "place with school"   (ADL Feature Type: "educational facilities")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC
Place: Hollingworth

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