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The following appear as names for Leigh. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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LEIGH | 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). | |
WEST LEIGH | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with Leigh. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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E200632 | Local Government District (UD/MB) | |
LANCASHIRE LEIGH | Constituency (BCon/PBCon/CCon) | Boundary Commission for England, First Periodical Report (London: H.M.S.O., 1954) |
LANCASHIRE SOUTH WEST LEIGH | Constituency (PDivCon) | 1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Parliamentary Counties and Boroughs, and their Divisions; Inhabited Houses and population in 1891'. |
LEIGH | Constituency (PDivCon) | F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918 (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1974) |
Constituency (BCon/PBCon/CCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) | |
Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 179. | |
Local Government District (UD/MB) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 688. | |
Local Government District (RD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 688. | |
Parish-level Unit (CP/AP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 179. | |
Parish-level Unit (CP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 179. | |
Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 682. | |
Registration sub-District | 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'. | |
Rural Deanery | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 868. | |
Sanitary District (USD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 685. | |
Sanitary District (RSD) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 685. | |
Urban Labour Market | Great Britain Historical GIS Project | |
LEIGH ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 179. |
SOUTH WEST LANCASHIRE LEIGH | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
WESTLEIGH | Registration sub-District | Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office) |
WEST LEIGH | Registration sub-District | 1851 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Ages of the People'. |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Leigh, 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 Leigh, 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 Leigh, in Wigan and Lancashire | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/639/names
Date accessed: 30th April 2024