. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. WEST DERBY HUNDRED 245 ft. is attained. The area is 2,894 acres.' The population in 1901 was 21,664, including Goose Green, Highfield, Little Lane, and other hamlets. The whole district is unpicturesque, bare and open, occupied for the most part by collieries, mine shafts, and pit banks. There are, however, fields where some crops are raised, potatoes and oats surviving the smoke of the environs. Pastures are scattered about also. The soil is clay and loam, over Coal Measures and stone. There are several important roads. That
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. WEST DERBY HUNDRED 245 ft. is attained. The area is 2,894 acres.' The population in 1901 was 21,664, including Goose Green, Highfield, Little Lane, and other hamlets. The whole district is unpicturesque, bare and open, occupied for the most part by collieries, mine shafts, and pit banks. There are, however, fields where some crops are raised, potatoes and oats surviving the smoke of the environs. Pastures are scattered about also. The soil is clay and loam, over Coal Measures and stone. There are several important roads. That from Ormskirk to Wigan enters the township at Lamber- head Green and passes through Newtown, where it is joined by the road from St. Helens through Billinge, and by that from Warrington to Wigan, through Goose Green. This last road has a branch to Wigan through Worsley Mesnes. The principal railway is the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's line from Liverpool to Wigan, which has a station called Pemberton ; a loop line, avoiding Wigan, goes east to join the Wigan and Bolton line. The same company's Wigan and Southport railway crosses the northern corner of the township. There are minor lines for the service of the collieries. The Local Government Act of 1858 was adopted by the township in 1872.* The board was changed to an urban district council of fifteen members by the Act of 1894. It has now been dissolved and the township added to the borough of Wigan, with four wards each returning three councillors and having an alderman. A hospital was erected in 1886 by the local board. A public park was given by Colonel B. H. Blundell in 1903 ; and a Carnegie library has been opened. Coal-mining is the principal industry. There are stone quarries, boiler works, iron foundry, cotton mill, and brick-making. The soil is loam and clay, with subsoil of clay, stone, and coal ; potatoes and oats are grown, and there is some pasturage. WIGAN The pedestal and portion of a cross exist at Goos«
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