Culcheth is a large village in Warrington, Cheshire, England located approximately 6 miles (10 km) north-east of Warrington town centre and is the principal settlement in Culcheth and Glazebury Civil Parish.
Population: 6,879
Latitude: 53° 27' 3.96" N
Longitude: -2° 31' 15.74" W
The Bolton Massacre, sometimes recorded as the Storming of Bolton, was an event in the English Civil War which happened on 28 May 1644. The strongly Parliamentarian town was stormed and captured by Royalist forces under Prince Rupert. It was alleged…
Ye Olde Man & Scythe public house on Churchgate, in Bolton, England was first recorded by name in 1251, making it one of the ten oldest public houses in Britain and the oldest in Bolton.
Wigan Wallgate railway station is one of two main railway stations serving the town of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. The station is on 2 lines, the Manchester-Southport Line and the Manchester-Kirkby Line. It is (16 miles) north west of Manc…
Astley is a settlement within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England, variously described as a suburb or a village. Astley lies on flat land to the northwest of the city of Manchester, and is crossed by the Bridgewater Cana…
The River Dane flows through Cheshire in the northwest England.
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust runs Salford Royal Hospital (formerly Hope Hospital), a large hospital in Salford, England.
The Royal Manchester Children's Hospital is a children's hospital in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, England.
Haydock Park Racecourse is a racecourse in Merseyside, England. The racecourse is set in an area of parkland bounded by the towns of Haydock to the west, Ashton-in-Makerfield to the north, Golborne to the east and Newton-le-Willows to the south. Hor…
Springfield Park was a multi-purpose stadium in Wigan, Greater Manchester. It was the home ground of Wigan Athletic F.C. until the club moved to the new JJB Stadium (now DW Stadium) after the 1998–99 season. At its largest, the stadium held 40,000. …
The Sankey Canal, which is also known as the Sankey Brook Navigation and the St Helens Canal, historically entirely within Lancashire is a canal now in Cheshire, extending into Merseyside, in the northwest of England, connecting St Helens with the R…
The River Bollin is a major tributary of the River Mersey in the north-west of England.
There are 37 Scheduled Monuments in Greater Manchester, a metropolitan county in North West England. In the United Kingdom, a Scheduled Monument is a "nationally important" archaeological site or historic building that has been given protection agai…
Daresbury Laboratory is a scientific research laboratory based at Sci-Tech Daresbury science and innovation campus near Daresbury in Cheshire, England. The laboratory began operations in 1962 and was officially opened on 16 June 1967 as the Daresbur…
St. George's Roman Catholic High School, was a Voluntary-Aided Catholic School located in the Walkden, Greater Manchester.
Sale Water Park is a 152-acre (62 ha) area of countryside and parkland including a 52-acre (21 ha) artificial lake in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. Opened in 1979 and owned by Trafford council, the water park l…
The Greater Manchester Statutory City Region (sometimes called the Greater Manchester City Region or more commonly as the Manchester City Region) is a pilot administrative division of England, consisting of Greater Manchester plus five other borough…
This is a list of cotton spinning mills, weaving sheds, bleachers and dyers and other textile mills in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Astley, Atherton, Bedford, Leigh, Golborne, Haigh Hindley Ince-in-Makerfield, Orrell, Pennington, Leigh, Standish, Tyldesley…
This list of mills in Bolton, lists textile factories that have existed in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.