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    627861 The Battle of Wigan Lane was fought on 25 August 1651 during the Third English Civil War, between a Royalist army led by the Earl of Derby and forces...
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    Tyldesley died in 1651 at the Battle of Wigan Lane. The former Wigan Central Library opened in 1878 and is now the Museum of Wigan Life. A one-year restoration...
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    the support of the Presbyterians due to his refusal to take the Covenant, and on 25 August was totally defeated at the Battle of Wigan Lane, being severely...
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    of the Chester to Lancaster Roman Road named Wigan Lane which leads northwards from the original 1246 Royal Charter boundary of the Borough of Wigan towards...
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    Earl of Derby. Lilburne entirely routed a Lancashire detachment of the enemy on their way to join the main Royalist army at the Battle of Wigan Lane on...
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  • August, Battle of Wigan Lane (skirmish) 28 August, Battle of Upton (the start of the western encirclement of Worcester) 3 September, Battle of Worcester...
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  • This is a list of people from Wigan, in North West England. The demonym of Wigan is Wiganer; however, this list may include people from the wider Metropolitan...
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    the majority were killed at the Battle of Wigan Lane in 1651. In 1779, the Manx Fencible Corps, a fencible regiment of three companies, was raised; it...
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    the site of Tyldesley's death at the Battle of Wigan Lane by one of his cornets, Alexander Rigby, in 1679 notes his "desperate storming of Burton-Upon-Trent...
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  • Matthew Boynton (category Members of the Parliament of England for constituencies in Yorkshire)
    the Battle of Wigan Lane, 1651 Dorothy, who married John Anlaby of Etton Elizabeth, who married John Heron Margaret, who married John Robinson of Ryther...
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  • Timothy Fetherstonhaugh (category Year of birth missing)
    where he applied to Ormonde to send troops for the relief of Cumberland. At the Battle of Wigan Lane, Lancashire, 26 August 1651, he was taken prisoner, and...
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    Leigh, Greater Manchester (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    Derby. Sir Thomas Tyldesley of Myerscough and Morleys Hall, Astley, was killed on 25 August 1651 at the Battle of Wigan Lane and is buried in the Tyldesley...
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    place of refuge. Derby had been sheltered there the previous week by the Catholic tenants, the five Pendrell brothers, after the Battle of Wigan Lane. The...
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    Thomas Tyldesley (category Members of Gray's Inn)
    25 August 1651 commanding as Major General under the Earl of Derby during the Battle of Wigan Lane. He was buried at his family chapel at Leigh Parish Church...
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    returned in support of Charles II, but was slain at the Battle of Wigan Lane. William Widdrington, 4th Baron Widdrington, was convicted of high treason for...
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    Robert Lilburne (category Regicides of Charles I)
    Lilburne defeated English Royalists, under the command of the Earl of Derby, at the Battle of Wigan Lane on 25 August 1651. This prevented them from joining...
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  • John Greenhalgh (governor) (category Governors of the Isle of Man)
    the Earl of Derby at the head of three hundred Manxmen at the battle of Wigan Lane in August 1651, greatly distinguished himself at Worcester (3 September)...
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  • Ratcliffe Gerard (category Year of birth uncertain)
    1646, and was one of the few English Royalists to take up arms for Charles II in 1651 and was captured at the Battle of Wigan Lane. In 1658 he was known...
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    after his death in the Battle of Wigan Lane. James Irvine, vicar, was so anti "non-conformist" that he refused burial or blessing of those, including children...
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  • 1651 in England (category Years of the 17th century in England)
    25 August – English Civil War: At the Battle of Wigan Lane Royalist troops under James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby are defeated by the New Model Army...
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  • the Battle of Almanza in 1707. Sackville Tufton, MP for Appleby 1681–1689, who lost some use of his right hand after being wounded at the Battle of Schooneveld...
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    the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. It is three miles (4.8 km) east of Wigan and covers an area of 2,580 acres (1,044 ha)...
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  • Humphrey Mackworth (Parliamentarian) (category Members of the Privy Council of England)
    incursion from the Isle of Man and Fetherstonhaugh had joined the ensuing Lancashire rebellion, defeated at the Battle of Wigan Lane. Although he was acting...
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    Thomas Birch (English Parliamentarian) (category Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Liverpool)
    scattered Derby's troops at Wigan Lane on 25 August. Although the Earl escaped, he was taken prisoner after the Battle of Worcester in September, and...
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  • number of players who joined Wigan. The club moved and played its home games at the Wigan Cricket Club at Prescott Street just off Frog Lane. The first...
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    Atherton, Greater Manchester (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    (/ˈæðərtən/) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England and historically part of Lancashire. The town, including Hindsford,...
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    the time of the battle the area was moorland and rough grazing with wooded, marshy valleys. Farming and mining activities, and work on the Wigan to Warrington...
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    Astley, Greater Manchester (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    supporter of Charles II, King of England during the English Civil War. He died in the Battle of Wigan Lane and is buried at the Church of St Mary the...
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    Golborne (redirect from Golborne, Wigan)
    Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies 5 miles (8.0 km) south-southeast of Wigan, 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Warrington and...
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    This is a list of cotton spinning mills, weaving sheds, bleachers and dyers and other textile mills in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester...
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