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The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England.It is named after its largest town, Wigan, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of Atherton, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Golborne, Hindley, Ince-in-Makerfield, Leigh and Tyldesley.
Indicators show that the township has a strong housing market, with a high owner occupancy rate of almost 80%. Parts of Astley are among the 5% least deprived areas in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, whilst parts of the Blackmoor area, where social housing is concentrated, are within the 10–20% most deprived neighbourhoods nationally. [48]
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 ...
People living in deprived areas of England have suffered disproportionately larger cuts to bus services, according to a new report. Think tank IPPR North, which produced the analysis, said it is ...
As measured by the Indices of deprivation 2007, the region has many more Lower Layer Super Output Areas in the 20% most deprived districts than the 20% least deprived council districts. [28] Only North East England shows more indicators of deprivation than the North West, but the number of affluent areas in the North West is very similar to ...
Areas of Wigan (10 P) Ashton-in-Makerfield (2 C, 17 P) Atherton, Greater Manchester (4 C, 27 P) C. Canals in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan (2 P) L.
The name of the town has been recorded variously as Wigan in 1199, Wygayn in 1240, and Wygan in numerous historical documents.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 ...
Pages in category "Areas of Wigan" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G.