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...
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the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town has a population of 107,732 and the wider borough of 330,714. Wigan is part...
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Wigan Council, or Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council, is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. It is...
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each time. Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council, generally known as Wigan Council, is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of Wigan in Greater...
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1918–1983: The County Borough of Wigan In 1974 the Country Borough of Wigan was abolished and superseded by the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, covering a far...
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list of people from Wigan, in North West England. The demonym of Wigan is Wiganer; however, this list may include people from the wider Metropolitan Borough...
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the administrative county of Lancashire, and the County Borough of Bolton. The metropolitan districts of Bury, Salford and Wigan lie to the east, south and...
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Worsley and Eccles (UK Parliament constituency) (category Proposed constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom)
Worsley & Westwood Park. The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan ward of Astley Mosley Common.1 The seat will cover the majority of, and replace, the Worsley and...
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newly-created local authorities: the Borough of Warrington and the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan. The portion of the rail route that was acquired by Warrington...
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Leigh and Atherton (UK Parliament constituency) (category Proposed constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom)
be composed of the following wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan (as they existed on 1 December 2020): Atherleigh (except part of polling district...
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Makerfield (UK Parliament constituency) (category Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
Borough of Wigan wards of Abram, Ashton-Golborne, Bryn, Lightshaw, Orrell, Winstanley, and Worsley Mesnes. 1997–2010: The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan wards...
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demise of Wigan A.F.C., Wigan County, Wigan United, Wigan Town and Wigan Borough. The town's die-hard football enthusiasts planned the rebirth of a town...
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The 2024 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect one third of the members of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council in...
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Higher End (redirect from Billinge near Wigan)
area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Billinge was a civil parish lying within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire...
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The coat of arms of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council was granted by the College of Arms in 1974. The field of the arms consists of alternating gold...
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distribution is around the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan. It is published on Fridays. It was founded in the 1950s as a subdivision of the Lancashire Evening...
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Makerfield (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
England. It is now split between the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, and the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens in Merseyside, both within...
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organisation in Aspull, Wigan Borough, England. It hosts the Aspull Olympic Wrestling Club. Founded in 1948 by Billy Riley in the town of Wigan, it was originally...
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Golborne (redirect from Golborne, Wigan)
the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies 5 miles (8.0 km) south-southeast of Wigan, 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Warrington...
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Leigh, Greater Manchester (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, on low-lying land northwest of Chat Moss. Within the boundaries of the historic county of...
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WN postcode area (category Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
cover most of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester (including Wigan itself and Leigh), plus small parts of West Lancashire (including Skelmersdale)...
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Ashton-in-Makerfield (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
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...
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Standish, Greater Manchester (redirect from Standish, Wigan)
is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, it is on...
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Winstanley Hall (category Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
Winstanley Hall is a late 16th-century house in Winstanley, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England (grid reference SD54430310). It...
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Mick Burke (mountaineer) (category People from Wigan)
pursuits and pioneering activities for young people from the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and surrounding districts In the years immediately after his...
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Wigan Pier is an area around the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, south-west of the town centre. The name has humorous...
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Community Action Party (category Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
number of councillors in Wigan Borough to five. They slowly expanded outside the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan into the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens...
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Leigh (UK Parliament constituency) (category Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
general election. Leigh was a marginal seat in the south of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and on the border with Warrington, with virtually all wards...
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Orrell, Greater Manchester (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
Orrell is a suburb of Wigan in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The population of the ward had fallen at the 2011 Census...
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Atherton, Greater Manchester (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
Atherton (/ˈæðərtən/) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England and historically part of Lancashire. The town, including...
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