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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  TYLDESLEY LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	BLACKPOOL CB/MB (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 "TYLDESLEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ATHERTON	Lancashire	rebuilt in 1810. There are Baptist and Unitarian chapels, and a national school. The subdistrict includes Tyldesley-cum-Shakerley. Pop., 11,936.	Imperial
  BEDFORD	Lancashire	Tyldesley and Kenyon branch railway, 1 mile ENE of Leigh; and has a station on the railway. Post Town, Leigh	Imperial
  BLACKPOOL	Lancashire	Tyldesley and the retreat of the Pretender in 1715 while the measures were in progress for the rebellion, stood a the west	Imperial
  BURNHAM	Buckinghamshire	Tyldesley; and some small remains of it still exist. A fragment of an ancient forest bears the name of Burnham	Imperial
  ELLENBROOK	Lancashire	Tyldesley. The living is a p. curacy. Value, £137. Patron, the Earl of Ellesmere. The church is in the Norman	Imperial
  HINDLEY	Lancashire	Tyldesley railway 1½ and 3¾ miles from Wigan, and the hamlet of Hindley Common, which is 4 miles	Imperial
  LANCASHIRE	Lancashire	Tyldesley, Ulverston, and Widnes. There are nearly 900 smaller towns, villages, and hamlets. The chief seats in the county are Knowsley	Imperial
  LEIGH	Lancashire	Tyldesley to Bradshaw-Leach, and near the Bolton and Kenyon branch of the Northwestern railway, 7¼ miles SW by S of Bolton	Imperial
  LONDON AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY	London	Tyldesley and Wigan, with branches to Bedford and Leigh, opened in 1864; the constriction of new lines, upwards of a mile	Imperial
  Shackcrley	Lancashire	Shackcrley . See TYLDESLEY WITH SHACKERLEY.	Bartholomew
  Tildesley	Lancashire	Tildesley , Lancashire. See TYLDESLEY.	Bartholomew
  Tyldesley	Lancashire	Tyldesley , town and township with ry. sta., Leigh par., SW. Lancashire, 5 miles S. of Bolton and 10 miles NW. of Manchester	Bartholomew
  TYLDESLEY	Lancashire	TYLDESLEY , a town, and a township-chapelry, in Leigh parish, Lancashire. The town stands on the Manchester and Wigan railway	Imperial
  WIGAN	Lancashire	Tyldesley, a fine ancient parochial church restored in 1856, a handsome church of 1841 with tower and lofty spire, a beautiful	Imperial
  WORSLEY	Lancashire	Tyldesley, and Wigan railway, 6½ miles WNW of Manchester; and has a post-office‡ under Manchester, a r. station	Imperial

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