Ashton-in-Makerfield, a township in South Lancashire, 4 miles S. of Wigan. Pop. (1881) 9824; (1891) 13,799, chiefly engaged in collieries, and in the hardware manufacture.
Ashton-in-Makerfield
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 483
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