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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 .
Wigan (/ ˈ w ɪ ɡ ən / WIG-ən) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, 16 miles (25.7 km) to the south-east, and Liverpool, 17 miles (27 km) to the south-west. It is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its
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.
Map of Greater Manchester, UK with Wigan highlighted. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 165%: Date: 1 September 2013: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Most data from Boundary-Line product. Lake data from Meridian 2 product. Inset derived from England location map.svg by Spischot. Author
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.
Map of boundaries 2010-2024. 1983–1997: The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan wards of Abram, Ashton-Golborne, Bryn, Lightshaw, Orrell, Winstanley, and Worsley Mesnes.
The historic town of Wigan forms an integrated conurbation along with the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan district of Ince-in-Makerfield, which is connected by ribbon development to Standish, Platt Bridge and Abram. Together with Skelmersdale in West Lancashire, these areas are defined by the Office for National Statistics as the Wigan Urban Area.
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]