Description
Aspull, a township and a village in Lancashire. The township lies 2 miles NE of Wigan, is governed by a local board formed in 1876, and has a post and money order office, of the name of Aspull-Moor, under Wigan. It forms a parish with Haigh. Acreage, 1905; population, 8952. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in collieries, malt kilns, and a cotton mill. There is a church erected in 1871, and Congregational, Methodist, Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Roman Catholic chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
