Leigh parish

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Leigh parish is a historic ecclesiastical and civil parish in what is now Greater Manchester, England, that once encompassed several townships including Atherton.

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Label Occurrences
Leigh parish canonical 1

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Statements (26)

Predicate Object
instanceOf civil parish
ecclesiastical parish
historic parish
administrativeCentre Leigh NERFINISHED
country England
encompassedTownship Astley NERFINISHED
Atherton NERFINISHED
Bedford NERFINISHED
Leigh NERFINISHED
Pennington NERFINISHED
Tyldesley with Shakerley NERFINISHED
Westleigh NERFINISHED
formerlyLocatedIn Lancashire NERFINISHED
hasHistoricalFunction unit of church organisation
unit of local administration
hasParishChurch St Mary the Virgin, Leigh NERFINISHED
historicCounty Lancashire
locatedIn Greater Manchester
North West England
partOf Diocese of Manchester NERFINISHED
precededBy medieval ecclesiastical parish of Leigh
region Greater Manchester
religiousDenomination Church of England NERFINISHED
status historic
usedFor ecclesiastical administration
local government

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Atherton historicalTownshipOf Leigh parish