HOLLAND (UP), a chapelry (formerly a market
town) in that part of the parish of WIGAN which is in
the hundred of WEST-DERBY, county palatine of LANCASTER,
4 miles (W. by S.) from Wigan, containing
3042 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with
£200 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and
£1400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of
the Rector of Wigan. The chapel, dedicated to St.
Thomas a Becket, is an ancient edifice, the nave and
aisles of which"are in the decorated English style, with
a large and handsome east window in the chancel: it
formerly belonged to a priory of Benedictine monks,
founded in the beginning of the fourteenth century, the
revenue of which, at the dissolution, was valued at
£78. 12. A fair for horses and cattle is held here on
the 15th of July.