. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions ; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bouroughs, bishoprics, universities, and colleges, and of the seals of the various municipal corporations. parate ju-risdiction, and the head of aunion, chiefly in the hundredof West Derby, S. divisionof the county of Lancaster ;containing, with the chapel-riesof Abram,Billmge,Haigh,Hindley, Pemberton
. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions ; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bouroughs, bishoprics, universities, and colleges, and of the seals of the various municipal corporations. parate ju-risdiction, and the head of aunion, chiefly in the hundredof West Derby, S. divisionof the county of Lancaster ;containing, with the chapel-riesof Abram,Billmge,Haigh,Hindley, Pemberton, and UpHolland, and the townshipsof Aspull, Billinge HigherEnd, Dalton, Ince-in-Maker-field, Orrell, and Winstanley. 51,988 inhabitants, of whom25,517 are in the town, IS miles (\V. N. \V.) from Man-chester, and 199 (X. W. by N.) from London. Thisplace is stated by Camden to have been originally calledWibiggin. The nucleus of the town i< supposed byWhitaker to have been a Saxon castle, but its originshould perhaps he assigned to a -till earlier period, asthree Roman roads unite here. The vicinity is said tohave been tin- scene of some sanguinary battles betweenthe Britoni, under their renowned King Arthur, and the Saxons; and the discovery, about the middle of the 18th century, of a large quantity of human bones, and thebones and ihoei of horses, o\er an extensive tract of 4 1) %3g$&t,. Corporation Seal. W I G A WIG A round near the town, tends to confirm this the great civil war, several battles were foughthere, Wigan being the principal station of the kingstroops commanded by the Earl of Derby. That leaderwas defeated and driven from the town by the parlia-mentary forces under Sir John Smeaton, early in 1643 ;and shortly afterwards, in the same year, he was againdefeated by Colonel Ashton, who, in consequence of thedevotion of the inhabitants to the royal cause, orderedthe fortifications of the town to be demolished. Fromthis time Wigan remained tranquil (w
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