Description
Astley or East Leigh, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Leigh parish, Lancashire, near the Bridgewater Canal and the Manchester and Liverpool section of the L. & N.W.R., 10 miles W of Manchester. It has a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Manchester. Acreage, 2685 ; population, 2552. There are collieries and a large cotton mill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester; value, £480 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Leigh. The church was erected in 1760, and has been three times enlarged. There are Wesleyan and Unitarian chapels, a free grammar school, founded in 1632,. and some charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
