Ads
related to: wigan tourist information centreThe closest thing to an exhaustive search you can find - SMH
Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "Tourist attractions in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The name of the town has been recorded variously as Wigan in 1199, Wygayn in 1240, and Wygan in numerous historical documents. [5]The name Wigan is probably a Celtic place-name : it might be a diminutive form of Brittonic *wīg "homestead, settlement" (later Welsh gwig), plus the nominal suffix -an has also been suggested (c.f. numerous places in France named Le Vigan); the place name may ...
Mesnes Park (English: / ˈ m eɪ n z ˈ p ɑː k / (Mains) is a Victorian public park dating from 1878 in Wigan, Greater Manchester, UK.. The elongated 12 hectares (30 acres) park lies to the north-west of Wigan town centre with its main entrance at the junction of Bridgeman Terrace and Mesnes Park Terrace.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
Wigan Pier is an area around the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, south-west of the town centre. [1] The name has humorous or ironic connotations since it conjures an image of a seaside pleasure pier , whereas Wigan is inland and a traditionally industrial town.
The Museum of Wigan Life is a public museum and local history resource centre in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The nineteenth-century listed building is by the noted architect Alfred Waterhouse. It originally housed Wigan Library, where George Orwell researched his book The Road to Wigan Pier in 1936. [2]
There are two major bus stations in both Wigan and Leigh town centres. Services operate from the bus stations to Bolton, Manchester, the Trafford Centre, St Helens and Chorley, as well as local inter-urban routes, with three high frequency services between Wigan and Leigh bus stations, operated by Stagecoach Manchester. Leigh, Atherton and ...
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 ...