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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Tyldesley (/ ˈ t ɪ l z l iː /) is a market town in Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. [2] Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, it is north of Chat Moss near the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, eight miles (13 kilometres) southeast of Wigan and nine miles (14 kilometres) northwest of Manchester.
The County Borough of Wigan was, from 1889 to 1974, a local government district centred on Wigan in the northwest of England. It was alternatively known as Wigan County Borough . The district was created by the Local Government Act 1888 , with its boundaries based upon the earlier Municipal Borough of Wigan .
Canals in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan (2 P) L. Leigh, Greater Manchester (4 C, 14 P) Liverpool Urban Area (3 C, 12 P) P.
Wigan is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The town, together with the outlying townships of Pemberton, Scholes, Whelley, Worsley Mesnes, Winstanley, and Goose Green, (the former Wigan County Borough), contains 286 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, 31 ...
Atherton (/ ˈ æ ð ə r t ə n /) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England and historically part of Lancashire.The town, including Hindsford, Howe Bridge and Hag Fold, is 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Bolton, 7 miles (11.3 km) east of Wigan, and 10 miles (16.1 km) northwest of Manchester.