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WN Postcode Area
The WN postcode area, also known as the Wigan postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) 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, Greater Manchester, Leigh), plus small parts of West Lancashire (including Skelmersdale) and the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens in Merseyside. __TOC__ Coverage The approximate coverage of the postcode districts: , - ! WN1 , WIGAN , Haigh, Greater Manchester, Haigh, Ince-in-Makerfield, Ince, Swinley,_Wigan, Swinley, Wigan , Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Wigan , - ! WN2 , WIGAN , Abram, Greater Manchester, Abram, Aspull, Greater Manchester, Aspull, Bamfurlong, Bickershaw, Haigh, Hindley, Greater Manchester, Hindley, Hindley Green, Ince, Platt Bridge , Wigan , - ! WN3 , WIGAN , Goose Green, Ince, Winstanley, Greater Manchester, Winstanley, Worsley Mesnes, Hawkley Hall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North West England
North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of England, administrative counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of 7,052,000 in 2011. It is the Countries of the United Kingdom by population, third-most-populated region in the United Kingdom, after the South East England, South East and Greater London. The largest settlements are Manchester and Liverpool. Subdivisions The official Regions of England, region consists of the following Subdivisions of England, subdivisions: After abolition of the Greater Manchester and Merseyside County Councils in 1986, power was transferred to the metropolitan boroughs, making them equivalent to unitary authorities. In April 2011, Greater Manchester gained a top-tier administrative body in the form of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, which means the 10 Greater Manchester boroughs are once again second-ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindley Green
Hindley Green is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. The population of the village had decreased to 11,186 at the 2011 Census. The village lies to the east of Hindley, Greater Manchester, Hindley and is centred on the A roads in Zone 5 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, A577 Atherton Road to its boundary with Leigh, Greater Manchester, Leigh. History Since 1852 Hindley Green has had 14 coal pits. Hindley Green railway station was opened in 1864 and closed in 1961. It was situated on Leigh Road. Hindley Green was also the site of a Turner & Newall, Turner Brothers Asbestos factory which opened in 1949. Asbestos caused many chronic industrial diseases leading to payouts for those affected. Governance Hindley Green forms one of the twenty-five ward (politics), wards of the Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council, metropolitan borough. Each ward returns three councillors to the seventy-five member Wigan Council. Councillors have a four-year t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shevington
Shevington is a village and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, England. The population of the Wigan ward called Shevington and Lower Ground had increased to 11,482 at the 2011 Census. Lying within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire, Shevington lies approximately from Wigan town centre, from Skelmersdale and at the 2001 census had a population of 9,786. History Toponymy Shevington, a farmstead near a hill called ''shevin'', derives from the Celtic ''cevn'' meaning a ridge and the Old English ''tun'', a farmstead. It is a hill slope settlement in the Douglas Valley recorded in documents in 1225 as Shefington. Other recorded spellings include Scheuynton in 1253, Sheuington in 1277, Sewinton 1288 and Sheuynton in 1292. History Shevington became a manor, an estate system of local government held of the king by a lord of the manor from the 12th to the 18th centuries. The area was included within the ecclesiastical parish of Standish until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appley Bridge
Appley Bridge is a small, affluent village crossing the borders of Greater Manchester and West Lancashire, England. It is located off Junction 27 of the M6 motorway and is nestled in the Douglas Valley alongside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Toponymy Appley comes from ''Apple lea'' (on the River Douglas), from (''boscus de'' "Woodland") ''Appelae'', ''Appeleie'', or ''Appeleye'', found in 13th-century Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey; also "Appley Moor"; within the township of Wrightington in the ancient parish of Eccleston. Community Once a busy industrial village with a paint and linoleum works, several quarries, and clay pits for the Wigan brick company, today the village still has several factories including a weighbridge manufacturer and a caravan factory. Today it is not as busy, with its main purpose being providing housing for the many commuters who work along the M6 corridor. Appley Bridge has two churches, (Methodist and Church of England), and is in the Dean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worsley Hall
Worsley Old Hall is a public house and restaurant in Worsley, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. History The present building on the site dates from the 16th or early 17th century. It was originally a timber-framed building which has been rebuilt in brick. It is thought that it originally consisted of a hall range on the south side, with wings extending to the north on the east and west sides. The house was remodelled in the 18th century with the addition of a range immediately to the north of the hall range. It was substantially extended in or around 1855 when an extension was added to the east wing. Further work was carried out in 1891; in 1905 the space between the wings was filled in with a billiard room with a table supplied by Orme and Sons. In 1906 a small wing was added on the northwest side. During the 20th century there were further internal alterations, par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pemberton, Greater Manchester
Pemberton is a town and an electoral ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the southwestern bank of the River Douglas,. which separates it from the town of Wigan, and east of the M6 motorway. The area today serves as a predominantly residential suburb along with the adjoining area of Orrell and as a ward has a population of 13,638,Pemberton 2001 United Kingdom Census, neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. URLs accessed 11 November 2008. increasing to 13,982 at the 2011 Census. a part of |
Orrell, Greater Manchester
Orrell is a ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The population of the ward had fallen at the 2011 Census to 11,513. The centre of the area lies to the west of Wigan town centre and serves as a predominantly residential suburb of Wigan. The area is contiguous with the district of Pemberton. Historically in Lancashire, Orrell was a centre of the coal mining industry, though today no evidence of the area's industrial past is present. The electoral ward of Orrell has a population of 11,203, however, the ward covers a larger area also containing parts of Billinge and Winstanley. History Orrell derives from the Anglo Saxon ''ora'' and ''hyll'', a hill where ore is dug. It has been variously recorded as Horul in 1212, Orel in 1292, Orhull in 1294 and Orul in 1307 and subsequently known as Orrell-in-Makerfield. It was the extreme north-west berewick of the manor of Newton-in-Makerfield before the Norman Conquest of England. In 1212 the manor was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Higher End
Higher End or Billinge Higher End is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Governance Billinge was a civil parish lying within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire on 2 February 1837 it was divided into two townships, Billinge Chapel End and Billinge Higher End when the Wigan poor law union was formed merging the workhouse provision of 20 parishes in the Wigan area. The poor law union built the Wigan Poor Law Infirmary in 1906 which became Billinge Hospital. In 1872 Billinge Local Board of Health was established for the area of these two townships and two detached parts of Winstanley township (one known as Blackley Hurst and the other situated in the Carr Mill area, both lying within the area of Billinge Chapel End township). In 1894 the area of the Local Board (together with the remaining area of Winstanley township) became Billinge Urban District and in 1927 the urban district was renamed Billinge and Winstanley Urban District. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billinge, Merseyside
Billinge is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England. It forms the larger part of the civil parish of Billinge Chapel End. At the United Kingdom Census 2001, it had a population of 6,554. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, Billinge is located by road approximately southwest of Wigan (town centre) and northeast of St Helens (town centre). History Etymology Billinge may mean "(place at the) pointed hill", from Old English ''billa'' "ridge, bill of sword" and -''ing'' "place at/people of the". The name was recorded as ''Bylnge'' in 1252. Governance This township or civil parish lies within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire. It was in Wigan ecclesiastical parish (Deanery of Wigan) and-, therefore, in the Diocese of Liverpool, previously Chester. A prison once stood in the village called ''Tower Prison'', and during the English Civil War, it was used by Parliamentarians to imprison Royalists soldiers, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garswood
Garswood is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of St. Helens, Merseyside, England. The village is within the civil parish of Seneley Green. The parish was historically part of Ashton-in-Makerfield until 1974 boundary changes. History Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, Garswood is from Old English gyr “fir” and ''wudu'' "wood", the fir wood. The name was recorded as ''Gratiswode'' (undated). Along with extensive farming, Garswood has seen much coal mining activity in its past, due to strata running up to an adjacent fault causing much outcropping of coal seams. Local mines included Garswood Park (which operated 1868–1880), Seneley Green (1869-1880), Birchenheds (1880-1925) and Park (1869-1960). Mining has taken place using (comparatively) shallow shafts and many drifts. The last drift mine in the Garswood area (in neighbouring Golborne), Quaker House Colliery, closed in 1992. Extensive opencast mining has taken place in more recent times and st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawkley Hall
Hawkley Hall was a mansion house in Pemberton, about 1.5 miles from Wigan and to the east of Goose Green. The hall was demolished in 1970 and a housing estate occupies the site today known as the "Hawkley Hall Estate". Education Hawkley Hall estate has one school, Hawkley Hall High School. It is a fairly large school that was graded "Outstanding" overall in 2009. References Houses in Greater Manchester Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan Buildings and structures demolished in 1970 {{GreaterManchester-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
