Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HALL, or HALL-IN-THE-WOOD

HALL, or HALL-IN-THE-WOOD, a hamlet in Boltonle-Moors parish, Lancashire; near Bolton. Crompton, the weaver, who invented the spinning mule, lived here.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC
Place names: HALL     |     HALL IN THE WOOD     |     HALL OR HALL IN THE WOOD

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