[3] The second part of the township, Haulgh, is derived from the Old English halh meaning a plot of flat alluvial land by a river.

[4] Historically, Tonge with Haulgh formed part of the Hundred of Salford, a judicial division of southwest Lancashire.

[5] Under provisions of the Poor Relief Act 1662, townships replaced civil parishes as the main units of local administration in Lancashire.

[8] The most notable building in the former township is Hall i' th' Wood, an early 16th-century manor house, and once the home of Samuel Crompton in the 18th century.

The two areas were reunited in 2004 as Tonge with The Haulgh, one of the twenty electoral wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester.