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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BOLTON	Lancashire	Hall-in-the-Wood, an old timbered seat of the Starkies in the neighbourhood, still extant. Cotton velvets and muslins began to be made about 1760; and muslins, cambrics, counterpanes, dimity, and ginghams came to be the chief productions. About 17,667 persons were employed, prior to the juncture of the cotton-distress of 1862, in cotton-mills, print-works, and bleach and dye works; and about 5,514 were employed in ironfoundries and engine-works. The number of factories, in 1865, was 70, and that of foundries 33; and one of the machine-works has a brick chimney	Imperial
  BUDWORTH (Great)	Cheshire	Hall, Arley Hall, and Belmont House, are chief residences. Bedworthmere and Pickmere are small lakes. Many of the inhabitants are employed in salt-works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chester. Value, £626.* Patron, Christ Church College, Oxford. The church is ancient; has an embattled tower; and contains monuments of the Pooles, the Warburtons, and the Leycesters. The chapelries of Antrobus, Barnton, Hartford, Little Leigh, Lostock	Imperial
  CHESTER	Cheshire	Lostock, Lower Peover, Lower Whitley, Stretton, Tabley, Witton, Wilderspool, Alvanley, Arley, Kingsley, Norley, Lachford, Crosstown, Toft, Lymm-with-Warburton, Bollington, High Legh, High Leigh, Marthall, Over Tabley, Aston-by-Sutton, Daresbury, Halton, Runcorn-Trinity, Thelwall, and Weston-Point; and the donative of Over Peover. The deanery of Macclesfield contains the rectories of Alderley, Cheadle, Gawsworth, Mobberley, Northenden, Stockport, Taxall, and Wilmslow; the vicarages of Mottram-in-Longdendale and Prestbury; and the p. curacies of Birtles, Handforth, Newton-St. Mary, Godley-cum-Newton-Green, Stayleybridge, Tintwistle, Woodhead, Bollington, Bosley, Capesthorne, Chelford, Henbury, Hurdsfield, Macclesfield-Christchurch, Macclesfield-St. Paul, Macclesfield-St. Peter	Imperial
  Cuerden	Lancashire	township, Ley land par., N. Lancashire, on river Lostock, 5 miles NW. of Chorley, 808 ac., pop. 573; contains Cuerden Hall .	Bartholomew
  CUERDEN	Lancashire	Lostock, and on the Preston and Wigan railway, 5 miles NNW of Chorley. Acres, 800. Real property, £3, 322. Pop., 666. Houses, 121. Cuerden Hall	Imperial
  LEYLAND	Lancashire	Lostock, ¾ of a mile W of the Northwestern railway, and 5½ S of Preston; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a post office‡ under Preston, and a station on the railway. Fairs are held on 24 March and 26 Oct.; and an agricultural and horticultural meeting is held in Sept.-The township comprises 3,651 acres. Real property, £13,658. Pop., 3,755. Houses, 748. The manor belonged, in the time of Edward the Confessor, to the Crown; had then a royal hall	Imperial
  Lostock	Lancashire	Lostock , township (ry. sta. Lostock Junction), Bolton le Moors par., SE. Lancashire, 4 miles W. of Bolton, 1520 ac., pop. 782; contains the seat of Lostock Hall	Bartholomew
  LOSTOCK	Lancashire	LOSTOCK , a township in Bolton-le-Moors parish, Lancashire; on the Bolton and Preston railway, 4 miles W of Bolton. It is connected ecclesiastically with West Houghton chapelry. Acres, 1,426. Real property, £2,146. Pop., 580. Houses, 121. Lostock Hall	Imperial
  LOSTOCK	Lancashire	LOSTOCK , a hamlet in Walton-le-Dale township, Blackburn parish, Lancashire; 3 miles S by E of Preston. Lostock Hall	Imperial
  Lostock Hall	Lancashire	Lostock Hall , ry. sta. and seat, Blackburn par.,NE. Lancashire, 3 miles SE. of Preston; P.O.	Bartholomew
  LOSTOCK-HALL	Lancashire	LOSTOCK-HALL , a railway station in Lancashire; on the Ormskirk and Preston railway; at Lostock hamlet, 3 miles S by E of Preston	Imperial
  NORTHWICH	Cheshire	NORTHWICH , a town, a township, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred, in Cheshire. The town stands on Watling	Imperial
  WALTON-LE-DALE	Lancashire	Hall, Darwen Bank, Darwen Cottage, Cooper Hill, Prospect Hill, Lostock Hall, and Highwood are chief residences. There are five cotton	Imperial

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