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    Westhoughton (/wɛstˈhɔːtən/ west-HAW-tən) is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, 4 miles (6 km)...
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    Colliery Bank Pit No. 3, known as the Pretoria Pit, in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, then in the historic county of Lancashire, in North West England. A...
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    Westhoughton railway station is one of the two stations which serve the town of Westhoughton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester...
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  • located in Daisy Hill, Westhoughton, Greater Manchester. They play their home games at New Sirs, St James Street in Westhoughton, which has a capacity...
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    Francis Lee (footballer) (category People from Westhoughton)
    Images of England: Westhoughton. NPI Media. ISBN 978-0-7524-1606-9. "Westhoughton Cricket Club 150th Anniversary (1856 -2006)". Westhoughton CC. Archived from...
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    Westhoughton Town Hall is a municipal building in Market Street, Westhoughton, Greater Manchester, England. The town hall is the meeting place of Westhoughton...
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    Stadium. It includes the generally affluent towns of Blackrod, Horwich and Westhoughton in the western half of Bolton borough though in 2010 Atherton from the...
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    a larger area which includes Blackrod, Farnworth, Horwich, Kearsley, Westhoughton, and part of the West Pennine Moors. It had a population of 298,903 in...
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  • comedy 'The Cleaner'". NME. Retrieved 2 September 2021. "Comedy role for Westhoughton actress Ruth Madeley in new BBC sitcom". The Bolton News. 31 August 2021...
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  • The Westhoughton by-election took place on 21 June 1951. The contest followed the resignation of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Rhys Davies...
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  • Westhoughton Greyhound Track was a greyhound racing track in Hart Common, Westhoughton, Metropolitan Borough of Bolton. The track opened in 1950s and was...
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    Westhoughton Mill or Rowe and Dunscough's Mill, in Mill Street in Westhoughton, near Bolton in the historic English county of Lancashire, was the site...
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    BAFTA in 2016 for her work in Don't Take My Baby. Madeley was born in Westhoughton, and was diagnosed with spina bifida six weeks before she was born. She...
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    Robert Shaw (actor) (category People from Westhoughton)
    Robert Archibald Shaw was born on 9 August 1927 at 51 King Street in Westhoughton, Lancashire, the son of Thomas Archibald Shaw and Doreen Nora, née Avery...
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  • The 1921 Westhoughton by-election was held on 5 October 1921. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, William Wilson. It...
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  • Westhoughton High School (WHS) is an 11–16 mixed, community secondary school in Westhoughton, Greater Manchester, England. A new soundproofed music room...
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  • Band is a brass band based in Wingates, a settlement near the town of Westhoughton in north-west England. It is considered one of the country's finest contesting...
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  • Infant School, Eagley Eagley Junior School, Eagley Eatock Primary School, Westhoughton Egerton Primary School, Egerton Essa Primary School, Great Lever The...
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  • Westhoughton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It includes the town of Westhoughton and the settlements...
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    Stalybridge (part) Stretford Swinton Tottington Tyldesley Urmston Walkden Westhoughton Whitefield Wigan Worsley Merseyside Billinge Bootle Crosby Earlestown...
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  • The Westhoughton by election took place for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in Westhoughton on 24 May 1973. It was won by Roger Stott who held...
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  • of MPs 'Obituary: Mr Tom Price, Labour MP for Westhoughton', The Times, 2 February 1973. 'The Westhoughton By-Election, No Hint Of Third Candidate', The...
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    Chadderton, Middleton, Heywood, Radcliffe, Milnrow, Horwich, Blackrod, Westhoughton, Littleborough, Atherton, Ashton-in-Makerfield and Golborne. The eastern...
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    Ground) Bideford (Shebbertown Racecourse) Bishop's Stortford Bolton (Westhoughton) Blackpool (Borough Park) Boston (Shodfriars Lane) Boston (Sports Stadium)...
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    Choice 0 0 0.9 1,621   Little Lever & Darcy Lever First 0 0 0.7 1,246   Westhoughton First Independents 0 0 0.4 742   Northern Heart 0 0 0.1 218   Independent...
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  • Lee Conservative Arthur Lee Conservative Civil Lord of the Admiralty Westhoughton 24 October 1903 Edward Stanley Conservative Edward Stanley Conservative...
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    England on 3 July 1986. He began playing golf at Hart Common Golf Club in Westhoughton at the age of 11. He earned a diploma in golf studies at Myerscough College...
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  • Coalville 21,980 Leicestershire 414 Normanton 21,980 West Yorkshire 415 Westhoughton 21,960 Greater Manchester 416 Biggleswade 21,950 Bedfordshire 417 Gainsborough...
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  • Monongah, West Virginia, U.S. 344 21 December 1910 Pretoria Pit Disaster Westhoughton, England 319 31 May 1892 Marie ore mine fire Příbram, Austria-Hungary...
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    clashed with government troops at Burton's Mill in Middleton and at Westhoughton Mill, both in Lancashire. The Luddites and their supporters anonymously...
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