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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  ASTLEY BRIDGE 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 "ASTLEY BRIDGE":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Astley Bridge	Lancashire	Astley Bridge , eccl. dist. and vil., Bolton-le-Moors par., SE. Lancashire, 3 miles N. of Bolton, pop. 5613; P.O., T.O.	Bartholomew
  ASTLEY-BRIDGE	Lancashire	ASTLEY-BRIDGE , a village and a chapelry in Bolton-le-Moors parish, Lancashire. The village is partly in the township	Imperial
  BOLTON-LE-MOORS	Lancashire	Astley-Bridge, Belmont, Blackrod, Bradshaw, Little Lever, and Lever Bridge, and the p. curacies of Harwood, Rivington, Tonge, Turton, and Walmsley	Imperial
  BRIDGNORTH	Shropshire	bridge, with seven arches, crosses the Severn. The town hall, in the middle of High-street, was built in 1646. The agricultural hall is in the Gothic style, and was built in 1867. The market-hall is a neat edifice of coloured brick, erected in 1855. A decaying timber house in Cartway was the birth-place of Bishop Percy. St. Mary's church was originally founded at Quatford, in the time of William Rufus, by Roger, Earl of Shrewsbury; but was soon removed to the castle at Bridgnorth, made collegiate for a dean and six prebendaries, exempted by King John	Imperial
  BRUNTINGTHORPE, or Brantingthorpe	Leicestershire	Astley r. station, and 5½ NE by N of Lutterworth. It has a post office under Lutterworth. Acres, 1,320. Real property, £2,688. Pop., 413. Houses, 94. The property is subdivided. The living is a rec. in the diocese. of Peterborough. Value, £380. Patron, J. Bridges	Imperial
  HEREFORD	Herefordshire	Bridge, Brilley, Clifford, Clodock, Eardesley, Lyonshall, Kington, Mansel-Gamage, Mansel-Lacy, Eskley-Michaelchurch, Peter-church, Rowlstone, Vowchurch, and Weobl y; and the p. curacies of Hardwick, Craswall, Llanfaino, Longtown, Newton, Dulas, Bollingham, Ewyas-Harold, Huntington, Llancillo, St. Margaret, Walterstone, and wormsley. The deanery of Weston contains the rectories of Stoke-Edith and Sutton-ST. Nicholas; the vicarages of Bodenham, Brinsop, Burghill, Dilwyn, Dormington, Kings-Pyon, Lugwardine, Tarrington, Wellington, and Weston-Beggard; and the p. curacies of Bartesti.ee, Westhide, Sutton-St. Michael, and Wisterton. The archdeacoury of Salop comprises the deaneries of Burford, Clnn, Ludlow, Pontesbury, Stottesden, and Wenlock. The deanery	Imperial
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	Bridge contains the rectories of Aston-onTrent, Shardlow, Stanton-by-Bridge, Swarkeston, and Weston-on-Trent; the vicarages of Barrow, Elvaston, and Melbourne; and the p. curacies of Alvaston, Boulton, Chelaston, Foremark, and Ticknall. The deanery of Staveley contains the rectories of Barlborough, Eckington, Killamarsh, Staveley, and Whitwell; the vicarages of Beighton and Elmton; and the p. curacy of Ridgeway. The deanery of Wirksworth contains the rectory of Carsington, the vicarage of Wirksworth, and the p. curacies of Atlow, Ballidon, Brassington, Hognaston, Idridgehay, Kirk-Ireton, and Middleton. The deanery of Condover contains the rectories of A cton-Burnel, Berrington, Cound	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Astley's amphitheatre, Westminster-bridge-road; and the Grecian saloon, at the Eagle tavern, City-road.-The principal other places	Imperial
  MAIDSTONE	Kent	Astley; passed to Sir Jacob Astley, Charles I. 's Baron of Reading; and was alienated from the Astleys to the first Lord Romney. 'The town acquired importance from the presence of the archbishops; received some enrichments at their hands; was long the halting-place of pilgrims to Canterbury: and had, for their use, an edifice called the Travellers' hospital or college, founded by Archbishop Boniface. Some Protestant martyrs were burnt in the town in the time of Mary; the plague devastated it in 1593-5,1604, 1607, and 1666-8; and Fairfax, at the head of 10,000 men, stormed	Imperial
  NUNEATON	Warwickshire	bridges over the Anker, a town hall, a public library and reading-room, a church, four dissenting chapels, a free grammar school, an English free school, a national school, two infant schools, and charities about £53. The ancient nunnery was founded by Robert, Earl of Leicester; was a cell to Fontevrault abbey in Picardy; had, at the dissolution, revenues amounting to £291; and is now represented by some slight remains. The church stands on high ground, on the road to Lutterworth; is later English and handsome; comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, with pinnacled tower; and contains ancient monuments	Imperial
  SHARPLES	Lancashire	Astley-Bridge. Acres, 3, 920. Real property, £14, 697; of which £302 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 3, 904; in 1861, 3, 294. Houses	Imperial
  SHREWSBURY	Shropshire	bridge, across the Severn, was erected in 1774, at a cost of £16,000; is 410 feet long; and has seven semi-circular arches, and an open balustrade. The Welsh bridge was built in 1795, at a cost of £8,000; is 266 feet long; and has five arches. The music and assembly rooms are commodious. The theatre was rebuilt in 1 834. The working men's hall was built in 1863, at a cost of nearly £4,000; and contains a lecture-hall, a reading room, a refreshment hall, and hot and cold baths. Lord Hill	Imperial

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