Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOOLEY-HILL

HOOLEY-HILL, a village in Audenshaw division of Ashton-under-Lyne parish, Lancashire; near the boundary with Cheshire and the Ashton and Stockport railway, 2 miles SSW of Ashton-under-Lyne. It has a post office under Manchester. Pop., 1, 772.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Ashton under Lyne CP/AP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Hooley Hill

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