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    St John the Baptist's Church is in Market Place, Atherton, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of...
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    Atherton, some, but not all, in the area referred to as Chowbent. They include the 17th-century Alder House, Chowbent Chapel, St John the Baptist's Church...
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    Metropolitan Borough of Wigan (category Local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    includes the towns of Atherton, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Golborne, Hindley, Ince-in-Makerfield, Leigh and Tyldesley. The borough also covers the villages...
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    Arthur Rostron (category Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    Stothert, in St John the Baptist church Atherton. Rostron joined the Cunard Line in January 1895 and earned a position as fourth officer on the ocean liner...
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    featured. The stadium has hosted the World Club Challenge four times, in 2000, between St. Helens and the Melbourne Storm in 2011 when Wigan took on St. George...
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    parishioners at St John's Chapel in Atherton begged it as a gift but Lord Lilford gave it to his sister in law and it was installed at St Oswald's Church, Winwick...
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    Wigan (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    church in the manor of Neweton is Wigan Parish Church and not the church of St.Oswald (Winwick) which is specifically named in the Domesday Book. The...
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    Haigh Hall (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    from the library to Enriqueta Augustina Rylands for the John Rylands Library. The Gutenberg Bible is part of the Harry Ransom Center collection at the University...
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    Mary's Church, Riverhead, Kent St John the Baptist's Church, Atherton, Lancashire St Peter and St Paul's Church, Bolton-by-Bowland, Lancashire St Cuthbert's...
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    St John's Church is a Roman Catholic Church in Standishgate, Wigan, Greater Manchester. It is within 200 feet of another Catholic church, St Mary's. Construction...
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    parish church in the Diocese of Liverpool, the Liverpool archdeaconry, and the Liverpool North deanery. The Liverpool merchant James Atherton, who later...
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    St Michael and All Angels' Church is in Leigh Road, Howe Bridge, a suburb of Atherton, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church...
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    Hindley Town Hall (category Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    to demolish the existing offices and build a new structure on the same site. The building was designed by Heaton, Ralph and Heaton in the Queen Anne Revival...
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  • Pollard & Pevsner 2006, pp. 136–137. Historic England, "Church of St John the Baptist, Atherton (1068475)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved...
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  • Thumbnail for St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Leigh
    St Joseph's Church is an active Roman Catholic church in, Leigh in Greater Manchester, England. It is in the parish of St Edmund Arrowsmith. It has been...
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    Bickershaw Colliery (category History of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    access the coal. However, access to transport via the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Plank Lane made the distribution of the product relatively easy. The first...
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    St Matthew's Church is in Billinge Road, Highfield, Pemberton, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery...
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  • Pollard & Pevsner 2006, pp. 136–137. Historic England, "Church of St John the Baptist, Atherton (1068475)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved...
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  • the Hill, Liverpool on 8 December 1801, the fourth son of Colonel John Joseph Atherton (1761–1809), Second Lancashire Regiment of Fencible Light Dragoons...
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    Abram Council Offices (category Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    - A. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2023. Brownbill, John; Farrer, William (1911). A History of the County of Lancaster:...
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    the deepest in the country. The pit was close to the town centre and large pillars of coal were left under the parish church and the town's large cotton...
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    building. It is in the Wigan deanery of the Archdiocese of Liverpool. It is within 200 feet of another Catholic church, St John's Church. They were built...
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    St Jude's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in the Worsley Mesnes area of Wigan, Greater Manchester. It was completed in 1965 and is a Grade II...
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    Golborne North railway station (category Disused railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    station served the town of Golborne, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The station was on the Liverpool, St Helens and South...
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    John Clarke (October 1609 – 20 April 1676) was a physician, politician, and Baptist minister, who was co-founder of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence...
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    org. Archived from the original on 17 August 2009. Retrieved 3 August 2009. Historic England. "Church of St John the Baptist, Atherton (1068475)". National...
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    Ince-in-Makerfield Town Hall (category Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    England. The building is currently used as a children's nursery. After significant industrial growth in the mid-19th century, largely associated with the coal...
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    Wigan Town Hall (category Grade II listed buildings in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    building. The building, which was designed by Briggs and Wolstenholme in the Baroque style, was opened by the Countess of Crawford as the Wigan Mining...
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    Mather Lane Mill (category Textile mills in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    Heritage List for England, retrieved 20 February 2016 Bibliography Lunn, John (1958), History of Leigh, Leigh Borough Council 53°29′35″N 2°30′32″W / 53...
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    Leigh Spinners (category Structures on the Heritage at Risk register)
    many years one of the mill buildings has been redeveloped into an arts and heritage centre. The mill is currently operated by the Leigh Building Preservation...
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