Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Stand (or Whitfield)

Stand (or Whitfield), eccl. dist., Prestwich par., SE. Lancashire, 5½ miles NW. of Manchester, pop. 5387; P.O., T.O., called Whitfield; has cotton mfrs.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "ecclesiastical district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Prestwich CP/AP       Lancashire AncC
Place names: STAND     |     STAND OR WHITFIELD     |     WHITFIELD
Place: Whitefield

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