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LEIGH , a See also:market See also:town and municipal See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough in the Leigh See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Lancashire, See also:England, 11 m. W. by N. from See also:Manchester by the See also:London & See also:North-Western railway. Pop. (1891) 30,882, (1901) 40,001. The See also:ancient See also:parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Mary the Virgin was, with the exception of the See also:tower, rebuilt in 1873 in the Perpendicular See also:style. The See also:grammar school, the date of whose See also:foundation is unknown, received its See also:principal endowments in 1655, 1662 and 1681. The See also:staple manufactures are See also:silk and See also:cotton; there are also See also:glass See also:works, foundries, breweries, and See also:flour See also:mills, with extensive collieries. Though the neighbourhood is principally an See also:industrial See also:district, several See also:fine old houses are See also:left near Leigh. The town was incorporated in 1899, and the See also:corporation consists of a See also:mayor, 8 aldermen and 24 councillors. See also:Area, 6358 acres.
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