ATHERTON, or CHOWBENT

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ATHERTON, or CHOWBENT , an urban

district

DISTRICT

in the Leigh parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, 13 M. W.N.W. of Manchester on the London & North-Western and Lancashire & Yorkshire railways. Pop. (1901) 16,211. The

cotton

factories are the principal source of industry; there are also ironworks and collieries. The manor was held by the local family of Atherton from John's reign to 1738, when it passed by

marriage

MARRIAGE

to Robert Gwillym, who assumed that name. In 1797 his eldest daughter and co-heiress married

Thomas

Powys, after-wards the second Lord Lilford. Up to 1891 the lord of the manor held a court-leet and court-baron annually in November, but in that year Lord Lilford sold to the local board the market tolls, stallages and pickages, and since this sale the courts have lapsed. The earliest manufactures were iron and

cotton

. Silk-weaving, formerly an extensive industry, has now almost entirely decayed. The first chapel or church was built in 1645. James

Wood

WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
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- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
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  - HEIM, ALBERT VON ST GALLEN (1849- )
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- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
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WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

, who became Nonconformist minister in the chapel at Atherton in 1691, earned fame and the familiar title of " General " by raising a force from his congregation, uncouthly armed, to fight against the troops of the Pretender (1715).

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