Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SOUGH

SOUGH, a hamlet in Over-Darwen township, Lancashire; on the Bolton and Blackburn railway, 4¾ miles S of Blackburn. It has a r. station with telegraph, a good inn, two cotton-factories, an extensive firebrick-work, and two quarries.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC
Place: Sough

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