Westhoughton, a town of Lancashire, 5 miles E. of Wigan, with manufactures of silk, cotton, and nails. Pop. (1851) 4547; (1891) 11,077.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 614
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