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38 relations: Bedford, Greater Manchester, Bickershaw Colliery, Bolton and Leigh Railway, Chapel of ease, Coal, Coal measures, Drift mining, English Reformation, Greater Manchester, Hundred (county division), Kenyon Junction railway station, Lancashire, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Leigh Union workhouse, Leigh, Greater Manchester, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Mary, mother of Jesus, Middle Ages, Municipal Borough of Leigh, Old English, Parsonage Colliery, Paul the Apostle, Pennington, Greater Manchester, Permian, Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, Poor law union, Saint Peter, Sandstone, St Mary the Virgin's Church, Leigh, St Peter's Church, Westleigh, Greater Manchester, Township, Township (England), Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland), West Derby, Westleigh railway station, Wigan Coal and Iron Company, Workhouse, Yale University Press.
Bedford, Greater Manchester
Bedford, a suburb of Leigh, Greater Manchester is one of three ancient townships, Bedford, Pennington and Westleigh, that merged in 1875 to form the town of Leigh.
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Bickershaw Colliery
Bickershaw Colliery was a coal mine, located at Westleigh, in Leigh, then within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire, England.
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Bolton and Leigh Railway
The Bolton and Leigh Railway (B&L) was the first public railway in the historic county of Lancashire, England.
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Chapel of ease
A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Coal measures
The coal measures is a lithostratigraphical term for the coal-bearing part of the Upper Carboniferous System.
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Drift mining
Drift mining is either the mining of an ore deposit by underground methods, or the working of coal seams accessed by adits driven into the surface outcrop of the coal bed.
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English Reformation
The English Reformation was a series of events in 16th century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
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Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2,782,100.
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Hundred (county division)
A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region.
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Kenyon Junction railway station
Kenyon Junction was a railway station at Kenyon near Culcheth in Warrington, England.
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Lancashire
Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.
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Leeds and Liverpool Canal
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool.
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Leigh Union workhouse
Leigh Union workhouse, also known as the Leigh workhouse and after 1930, Atherleigh Hospital, was a workhouse built in 1850 by the Leigh Poor Law Union on Leigh Road, Atherton in the historic county of Lancashire.
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Leigh, Greater Manchester
Leigh is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, southeast of Wigan and west of Manchester, on low-lying land northwest of Chat Moss.
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Liverpool and Manchester Railway
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was a railway opened on 15 September 1830 between the Lancashire towns of Liverpool and Manchester in England.
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Mary, mother of Jesus
Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
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Municipal Borough of Leigh
The Municipal Borough of Leigh was, from 1899 to 1974, a local government district of the administrative county of Lancashire, England, consisting of the townships of Pennington, Westleigh, Bedford and part of the township of Atherton and named after the ancient ecclesiastcal parish.
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Old English
Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
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Parsonage Colliery
Parsonage Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Lancashire Coalfield in Leigh, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England.
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Paul the Apostle
Paul the Apostle (Paulus; translit, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; c. 5 – c. 64 or 67), commonly known as Saint Paul and also known by his Jewish name Saul of Tarsus (translit; Saũlos Tarseús), was an apostle (though not one of the Twelve Apostles) who taught the gospel of the Christ to the first century world.
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Pennington, Greater Manchester
Pennington, a suburb of Leigh, Greater Manchester is one of six townships in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Leigh, that with Westleigh and Bedford merged to form the town of Leigh in 1875.
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Permian
The Permian is a geologic period and system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic period 251.902 Mya.
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Poor Law Amendment Act 1834
The Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 (PLAA), known widely as the New Poor Law, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by the Whig government of Earl Grey.
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Poor law union
A poor law union was a geographical territory, and early local government unit, in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Saint Peter
Saint Peter (Syriac/Aramaic: ܫܸܡܥܘܿܢ ܟܹ݁ܐܦ݂ܵܐ, Shemayon Keppa; שמעון בר יונה; Petros; Petros; Petrus; r. AD 30; died between AD 64 and 68), also known as Simon Peter, Simeon, or Simon, according to the New Testament, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, leaders of the early Christian Great Church.
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Sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.
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St Mary the Virgin's Church, Leigh
The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Church of England parish church in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England.
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St Peter's Church, Westleigh, Greater Manchester
St Peter's Church is in Firs Lane, Westleigh, a district of Leigh, Greater Manchester, England.
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Township
Township refers to various kinds of settlements in different countries.
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Township (England)
In England, a township (Latin: villa) is a local division or district of a large parish containing a village or small town usually having its own church.
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Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)
In England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area.
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West Derby
West Derby is a suburb in the north of Liverpool, Merseyside, England.
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Westleigh railway station
Westleigh or West Leigh was a station in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England on the Bolton and Leigh Railway line.
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Wigan Coal and Iron Company
The Wigan Coal and Iron Company was formed when collieries on the Wigan Coalfield owned by John Lancaster were acquired by Lord Lindsay, the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, owner of the Haigh Colliery in 1865.
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Workhouse
In England and Wales a workhouse, colloquially known as a spike, was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westleigh,_Greater_Manchester
