Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GORTON (West)

GORTON (West), a chapelry in Gorton township, Lancashire; constituted in 1865. It contains the Bellevue gardens, and has a post-office under Manchester. reading room s, and a Franciscan convent. Pop., 4, 305. The living is a rectory. The church was built in 1866, and is in the early English style.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC
Place names: GORTON     |     GORTON WEST     |     WEST GORTON
Place: West Gorton

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