Adlington is a village[1] and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, near the West Pennine Moors.

[4][5] Adlington was part of the Penwortham barony granted to Randle de Marsey and later held by the Ferrers.

[7] John Pilkington, who had taken up arms for the king, but later took the side of Parliament in the civil war, had his estate sequestered.

Hugh was succeeded by Peter who had no surviving children and the manor descended to John's daughter Eleanor, who married Samuel Robinson of Chester in 1664.

Richard, consul at Nantes, died in 1828 and was succeeded by his daughter Henrietta, wife of General Robert Browne, who assumed the Clayton name.

His only son died at Sevastopol and Adlington Hall passed to James Robert Browne Clayton Dawbeny.

Adlington Hall, built on rising ground in 1771 by Sir Richard Clayton, was a Georgian mansion of brick and stone, and replaced an ancient timber and plaster house on the same site.

As part of the National Coal Board in 1958, Ellerbeck Colliery employed 411 men and women who worked as pit brow lasses, it closed in 1965.

In 1891 Davies and Eckersley operated the Huyton Bleachworks and the Pin Croft Dyeing and Printing Company were bleachers and finishers.

The village is represented on the council by three Labour Party councillors elected for the Adlington and Anderton ward.

[7] Adlington's economy was based on cotton mills and coal pits but the majority of these traditional industries have disappeared.

The construction company Leonard Fairclough & Son was founded and based in the village before becoming part of the bigger AMEC group.

Meadow Road is home to Adlington Cricket Club which plays in the local Lancashire and Bolton leagues.

Construction magnate Leonard Fairclough was born and lived in Adlington and has a memorial garden dedicated to him in the village.