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The Urban Area includes the integrated conurbation around Wigan, (containing the contiguous areas of Ince-in-Makerfield and Wigan itself), along with the outlying areas of Standish, Abram and the West Lancashire town of Skelmersdale. The Wigan Urban Area has a total population of 175,405. [1] This is an increase of 5% on the 2001 figure of ...
The ONS identify the Wigan Built-up Area as the western part of the district, as well as Skelmersdale and Upholland in West Lancashire, with a population of 175,485 in 2011. It considers towns in the east of the borough, Hindley, Leigh, Golborne, Atherton and Tyldesley to be part of the Greater Manchester Built-up Area.
Municipal Buildings, Hewlett Street: Retained façade of 1900 building, with Wigan Life Centre behind Wigan Civic Centre, Millgate: Council's main offices 1970–2018. The old Wigan Borough Council had held its meetings at the Old Town Hall on King Street, which had been built as a courthouse in 1867 and had become the council's headquarters in ...
This is a list of people from Wigan, in North West England. The demonym of Wigan is Wiganer; however, this list may include people from the wider Metropolitan Borough of Wigan—from Ashton-in-Makerfield, Hindley, Ince-in-Makerfield, Atherton, Leigh, Tyldesley, and other areas in the borough. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname:
The WN postcode area, also known as the Wigan postcode area, [2] is a group of eight postcode districts in North West England, within three post towns.These cover most of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester (including Wigan itself and Leigh), plus small parts of West Lancashire (including Skelmersdale) and the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens in Merseyside.
Orrell is a suburb of Wigan in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. [2] The population of the ward had fallen at the 2011 Census to 11,513. [3] The area lies 3 miles (4.8 km) to the west of Wigan town centre. [4]
Lowton is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It is around 2 miles (3 km) from Leigh, 7 miles (11 km) south of Wigan and 12 miles (19 km) west of Manchester city centre. The settlement lies across the A580 East Lancashire Road.
The pavilion at Mesnes Park as it looked in 2005. Swinley is an urban suburb of Wigan, Greater Manchester.The area was mainly developed during the late Victorian and Edwardian period from around 1885 up until the end of the interwar period upon a green corridor centred on the section of the Chester to Lancaster Roman Road named Wigan Lane which leads northwards from the original 1246 Royal ...