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Encyclopedia > Adlington

Adlington is a town in Lancashire, England near the West Pennine Moors, and the larger town of Chorley. It became a separate parish in 1842, then grew into a town around the textile industry and coal mining, until these closed in the 1960s.




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Handel at Adlington Hall - A Unique Personal Insight (1411 words)
ADLINGTON HALL near Macclesfield, Cheshire, was orginally built as a Hunting lodge before the Norman Conquest and early in the thirteenth century it was granted to the Norman family of "de Corona".
Adlington Hall, still the home of the Legh family, is an interesting example of a small country manor, having many old furnishings and paintings going back to the sixteenth century.
Whether or not Handel himself stayed at Adlington during the lifetime of Elizabeth Legh is not certain, for she died aged forty and unmarried in 1734 and is buried in Westminster Abbey.
IOL: Debbie Adlington puts the pieces together (938 words)
Adlington is still in Conradie Hospital but recovering remarkably well from the horrendous axe wounds in the head inflicted by her husband.
Adlington said, while she was in the coma, she remembers hearing the voices of her brothers Nigel and Bruce.
Adlington said her husband was always very controlling but in the past four to five years of their marriage he had verbally abused her constantly.
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