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Chorley is a market town in Lancashire, in North West England. It is the largest settlement in the Borough of Chorley. Chorley is located north of Wigan, south west of Blackburn, north west of Bolton, south of Preston and north west of Manchester. As in much of Lancashire, the town's wealth came principally from the cotton industry, although it also became a major market town due to its central location between four other towns. As recently as the 1970s the skyline was dominated by numerous factory chimneys, but most have now been demolished: remnants of the industrial past include Morrison's chimney and a few other mill buildings, and the streets of terraced houses for mill workers. Chorley is the home of the Chorley cake.
According to the Office for National Statistics Chorley's population increased from 31,556 during the 2001 Census to 34,667 in 2011
Chorley is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Lindsay Hoyle of the Labour Party.
Chorley is a town in Lancashire, England. It may also refer to
- Borough of Chorley, a local government district containing the town
- Chorley (UK Parliament constituency) containing the town
Chorley may also refer to:
Chorley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Ben Chorley (born 1982), English football player
- Charles Chorley (c. 1810 – 1874), journalist and man of letters
- Henry Fothergill Chorley (1808–1872), English music critic
- Herbert Chorley, fictional character in Harry Potter
- Richard Chorley (1927–2002), English geographer
- Baron Chorley, peer of the United Kingdom