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Astley Vicarage
Astley Vicarage (also known as The Old Vicarage) is a Grade II* listed former parsonage building on Church Road in Astley, a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, it is one of the most significant properties in the Astley conservation area, noted for its early classical architectural style and strong historical associations with the local parish. The building was sold by the Church Commissioners in the 1990s and is now a private residence.
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Damhouse
Damhouse or Astley Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Astley, a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It has served as a manor house, sanatorium, and since restoration in 2000, houses offices, a clinic, nursery and tearooms.
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St Stephen's Church, Astley
St Stephen's Church is a parish church located in Astley, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican church built in 1968, and it is part of the Leigh deanery in the archdeaconry of Salford diocese of Manchester. Along with St George's Church, Tyldesley, and St John's Church, Mosley Common St Stephen's forms part of the united benefice of Astley, Tyldesley and Mosley Common.
The origins of St Stephen's Church date back to Astley Chapel, a chapel of ease of Leigh Parish Church built in 1631 and its successor which was burned in an arson attack in 1961.
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New Hall moated site
New Hall moated site is a scheduled monument in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester, England. It includes a moat and an island platform on which a modern house has been built. The island was the site of a medieval building. The moat measures between 20 and 30 metres across and is widest at the south west corner where the water soaks away to join a stream. The moat was revetted on the south side but the stonework is destroyed and is bridged on the same side by a modern stone bridge which replaced a timber structure. The rectangular island, measuring 60 metres by 40 metres, encloses an area of 0.25 hectares (0.62 acres) and is 0.4 metres above the surrounding land. Archaeological evidence of the medieval buildings will be present on the island and the moat will retain other environmental evidence. A ruined post-medieval farmhouse occupied a third of the island in 1983. The present modern buildings are excluded from the scheduling, although the ground beneath them is part of the schedule.
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Astley, Greater Manchester
Astley is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, it is crossed by the Bridgewater Canal and the A580 East Lancashire Road. Continuous with Tyldesley, it is between Wigan and Manchester, both 8 miles (13 km) away. Astley Mosley Common ward had a population of 11,270 at the 2011 Census.
Astley's name is Old English, indicating Anglo-Saxon settlement. It means either "east (of) Leigh", or ēastlēah the "eastern wood or clearing". Throughout the Middle Ages, Astley constituted a township within the parish of Leigh and hundred of West Derby. Astley appears in written form as Asteleghe in 1210, when its lord of the manor granted land to the religious order of Premonstratensian canons at Cockersand Abbey.
Medieval and Early Modern Astley is distinguished by the dignitaries who occupied Damhouse, the local manor house around which a settlement expanded. The Bridgewater Canal reached Astley in 1795, and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830. The Industrial Revolution introduced the factory system when the village's cotton mill was built in 1833. Coal mining became an important industry.
Mining subsidence and a decline in coal production led to a reduction in the industry in the mid-20th century; its cotton mill closed in 1955, and the last coal was brought to the surface in 1970. Astley Green Colliery Museum houses collections of Astley's industrial heritage.