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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.
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 ...
Wigan Life Centre, The Wiend, Wigan, WN1 1NH: Council's main offices. The council's main offices are at the Wigan Life Centre on The Wiend, a modern building completed in 2012 behind the retained façade of the former Municipal Buildings facing Hewlett Street and Library Street. The building also incorporates the town's library. [21] [22]
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.
The Carstairs index makes use of data collected at the Census to calculate the relative deprivation of an area, therefore there have been four versions: 1981, 1991, 2001 and 2011. The Carstairs indices are routinely produced and published [32] by the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow.
The area's principal road is the A577-Boothstown to Ormskirk. The M6 motorway runs north-south through the area. The easily accessible East Lancashire Road and M62 give access to Salford and Manchester. The M58 provides the Wigan area with a link to West Lancashire and the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton and the areas to the north the City of ...
Ashton-in-Makerfield is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Wigan. As of the 2021 census, there was a population of 26,380. As of the 2021 census, there was a population of 26,380.
Ince-in-Makerfield or Ince is a town [1] in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. The population of the Ince ward at the 2011 census was 13,486, [2] but a southern part of Ince was also listed under the Abram ward (north of Warrington Road in this ward). [3] Adding on this area brings the total in 2011 to 15,664.