Description
Worthington, a township in Standish parish, Lancashire, 3 1/2 miles N by W of Wigan station on the L. & Y.R. and L. & N.W.R., with a post office under Wigan; money order and telegraph office, Standish. Acreage, 659; population, 288.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
