PEMBERTON, a chapelry in that part of the parish
of WIGAN which is in the hundred of WEST-DERBY,
county palatine of LANCASTER, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from
Wigan, containing 3679 inhabitants, who are chiefly
employed in the coal mines, which are worked here to
a considerable extent. The parliamentary commissioners
for building new churches and chapels have
given directions for the erection of a new chapel at this
place. In the neighbourhood is Hawkley Hall, a very
ancient building, the original proprietors of which came
over with the Conqueror.