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The following appear as names for Westhoughton. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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HOUGHTON | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). | |
HOUGHTON DIVISION WEST | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
HOUGHTON WEST | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). | |
WESTHOUGHTON | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
WEST HOUGHTON | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with Westhoughton. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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E200675 | Local Government District (UD) | |
LANCASHIRE SOUTH EAST WESTHOUGHTON | Constituency (PDivCon) | 1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Parliamentary Counties and Boroughs, and their Divisions; Inhabited Houses and population in 1891'. |
LANCASHIRE WESTHOUGHTON | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
Constituency (CCon) | Boundary Commission for England, First Periodical Report (London: H.M.S.O., 1954) | |
SOUTH EAST LANCASHIRE WESTHOUGHTON | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
WESTHOUGHTON | Constituency (CCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
Constituency (PDivCon) | F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1974) | |
Local Government District (UD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 689. | |
Parish-level Unit (Tn/CP/Ch) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 210. | |
Registration sub-District | 1861 Census of England and Wales, Table 1, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1851 and 1861, in Districts, Sub-districts, Parishes and Places'. | |
Sanitary District (USD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 686. | |
Urban Labour Market | Great Britain Historical GIS Project | |
WEST HOUGHTON | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 174. |
Parish-level Unit (Tn/CP/Ch) | 1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'. | |
Registration sub-District | Registrar General, Decennial Supplement (HM Stationery Office) | |
Urban Labour Market | Ministry of Labour, Local Unemployment Index (Ministry of Labour) |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Westhoughton, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Westhoughton, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Westhoughton, in Bolton and Lancashire | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/472/names
Date accessed: 29th September 2024