HAIGH, a township in that part of the parish of WIGAN which is in the hundred of WEST-DERBY, county palatine of LANCASTER, 2 miles (N. by E.) from Wigan, containing 1300 inhabitants. A free school is supported by the rental of a house and ten acres of land, the bequest of Miles Turner, in 1634, producing about £50 per annum; and by the interest of £100, the gift of Dame Dorothy Bradshaigh, in 1792. The " Receptacle," an ahnshouse for ten poor men and ten poor women of this township and those of Wigan, Blackrod, and Aspull, was erected by the same lady, and endowed witha sum now invested in the three per cent, consols.,,and producing £136. 13.2. per annum-: to each tenement a small plot of ground is attached. A considerable quantity of cannel coal is obtained in this district.