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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.
A flapjack (also known as a cereal bar, oat bar or oat slice) is a baked bar, [1] cooked in a flat oven tin and cut into squares or rectangles, made from rolled oats, fat (typically butter), brown sugar and usually golden syrup.
Leigh Spinners (Leigh Mill) Bradshaw Gass & Hope: Bedford SJ 674,997 : 1913 : Standing : 112: Notes: Leigh Spinners or Leigh Mill, a double spinning mill, is a Grade II* listed building built for the Horrocks Company close to the Bridgewater Canal. The east mill, boiler house and chimney were built in 1913 to the designs of Bradshaw, Gass ...
The original mill was a watermill driven by the River Mahon in Kilmacthomas, County Waterford. The Flahavan's factory now produces other items alongside its traditional porridge oats including oats -based breakfast cereals, rolled oats, cereals, muesli, flour, snack products, and baked oat products such as flapjacks and biscuits.
Leigh Grammar School existed in 1655 but its foundation is unclear. The building was next to the churchyard, [97] but the school moved to Manchester Road in 1931. Leigh Girls' Grammar School was established in 1921, [97] but both schools were abolished by the then Secretary of State for Education, Shirley Williams, in the 1976
The Bolton and Leigh Railway line reached Westleigh in March 1830 and was extended across the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to Kenyon Junction on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Leigh Station on the Bolton and Leigh Railway at Westleigh was opened to passengers in June 1831. [11] The line of the railway is now the route of the A579 road.
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It is just outside the boundary of the city and county of Bristol. The village is located to the south of Leigh Woods National Nature Reserve . It is situated at the western end of the Clifton Suspension Bridge , which opened in 1864, making the development of Leigh Woods as an upmarket residential area practicable. [ 1 ]