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Westhoughton es un pueblo y una parroquia civil en Inglaterra del municipio metropolitano de Bolton, en Gran Mánchester. 1 Está a cuatro millas al sur de Bolton, a cinco al este de Wigan y a trece al noroeste de Mánchester. 2 . Es un condado histórico de Inglaterra, y uno de los centros de las minas de carbón, el hilado y la manufactura textil.
Westhoughton (/ w ɛ s t ˈ h ɔː t ən / west-HAW-tən) is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Bolton, 5 miles (8 km) east of Wigan and 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Manchester.
Westhoughton es un pueblo y una parroquia civil en Inglaterra del municipio metropolitano de Bolton, en Gran Mánchester. Está a cuatro millas al sur de Bolton, a cinco al este de Wigan y a trece al noroeste de Mánchester.
Westhoughton is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Bolton, 5 miles (8 km) east of Wigan and 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Manchester.
WESTHOUGHTON. Westhalghton, 1292, and usually; Westhalton, 1302; the West is often omitted. Westhaughton and Westhoughton, xvi cent. This township, the largest in the parish, has an area of 4,341 acres, having an average breadth of over 2 miles from north-east to south-west, and an extreme length of nearly 3½ miles from northwest to south-east. The highest ground is that along the north ...
Westhoughton Mill or Rowe and Dunscough's Mill, in Mill Street in Westhoughton, near Bolton in the historic English county of Lancashire, was the site of a Luddite arson attack in 1812. The mill was built in 1804 by Richard Johnson Lockett, a Macclesfield man who lived at Westhoughton Hall.
Westhoughton’s History . The name Westhoughton is derived from the Old English words "halh" (dialectal "haugh") for a nook or corner of land, and "tun" for a farmstead or settlement - meaning a "westerly settlement in a corner of land". The town has been spelt various ways, often the "West-" was omitted. In 1210 it was spelt as Halcton, 1240 ...
