Heskin
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Heskin is a small village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001 it has a population of 883 increasing to 898 at the 2011 Census. This increased to 906 at the 2021 Census.
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cached 603h agoPlace details
- Locality
- Chorley
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Heskin
- UK place.map_type
- Lancashire
- UK place.population
- 906
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021 Census)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SD515155
- UK place.civil_parish
- Heskin
- UK place.shire_district
- Chorley
- UK place.shire_county
- Lancashire
- UK place.region
- North West England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.post_town
- CHORLEY
- UK place.postcode_area
- PR
- UK place.postcode_district
- PR7
- UK place.dial_code
- 01257
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Chorley
- UK place.static_image_name
- Heskin Hall - geograph.org.uk - 922514.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Heskin Hall
- UK place.pushpin_map
- United Kingdom Borough of Chorley
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 898
- Image
- Heskin Hall - geograph.org.uk - 922514.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01257
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- Commons category
- Heskin
- OS grid reference
- SD515155
- P8168
- Sufyan al-Thawri
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8 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- Architecture
- Heskin Hall
- Ghosts
- Geography
- See also
- References
- External links
Heskin is a small village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001 it has a population of 883 increasing to 898 at the 2011 Census. This increased to 906 at the 2021 Census.
==Toponymy== The name Heskin is of Brittonic origin. As with Haskayne, the first element is hesg meaning "sedge" (cf. Welsh hesg, Gaelic seisg). This is suffixed possibly with -īn, an adjectival and toponymic suffix.
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