Bickershaw is a village, effectively a suburb of
Abram, within the
Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
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, Greater Manchester, Atherton, Ashton-in-Ma ...
, in
Greater Manchester
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, England. Historically in
Lancashire
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, Bickershaw is 3 miles (4.8 km) south-southeast of Wigan.
The
Bickershaw Festival was held here in 1972.
Today the village is the location of the main entrance/access road to
HMP Hindley, a juvenile
prison
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and
Young Offenders Institution mainly serving the Northwest UK, although the main building, HMP Hindley, is situated in neighbouring Hindley.
Bickershaw is the birthplace of Lord Martin Dearnaley.
Villages in Greater Manchester
Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
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