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Places   (Help with places, streets and buildings in Wigan.)

Started by: Barley (8)

On the 1845 6-inch map of Hindley there is a house called "Strangeways" which I think is where my ancestor farmed between 1801 and 1815 (according to the Land Tax and the Tithe schedule).
It was off Liverpool Road and appears to be about where the modern roads Longton Street and Balmoral Drive are now, north of the old Hindley and Platt Bridge Station.
On the 1894 map it is still there, marked "Hall" and opposite Strangeways Hall Colliery. Still there on the 1909 and 1946 maps, called Strangeways Hall.
Google gives me things about the Strangeways Hall in Manchester city centre, but that doesn’t seem to be the same as the farm in Hindley.
Anyone know anything about it? Any pictures?

Replied: 31st Dec 2020 at 18:30

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