In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Douglas like this:
DOUGLAS, a chapelry in Eccleston parish, Lancashire; on the river Douglas and the Southport and Wigan railway, near Newburgh r. station, 5½ miles ENE of Ormskirk. Post town, Parbold, under Ormskirk. Rated property, £2, 500. Pop., 1, 730. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £137.* Patron, the Rector of Eccleston. The church is good.
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Douglas through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Douglas in West Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25994
Date accessed: 20th May 2024
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