Leigh (pop. 46,000) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, 7.7 miles (12 km) southeast of Wigan and 9.5 miles (15.3 km) west of Manchester city centre. Leigh is situated on low-lying land to the north west of Chat Moss.
Population: 43,626
Latitude: 53° 29' 47.11" N
Longitude: -2° 31' 11.03" W
St Stephen and All Martyrs' Church, Lever Bridge, is in Darcy Lever, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Walmsley, the archdeaconry of Bolton, and the diocese of Manchester.
St Oswald's Church, is in the village of Winwick, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.
St Monica's R.C.
Sale Metrolink station is a tram stop on the Altrincham Line of the Metrolink light-rail system in Sale, Greater Manchester, England.
Navigation Road is a station that serves both Network Rail and Manchester Metrolink located in the east of Altrincham, in Greater Manchester, England. It consists of a Northern Rail-operated heavy rail station on the Mid-Cheshire Line, and an adjoin…
Moses Gate Country Park, part of which is also known as Crompton Lodges, (National Grid Ref: SD 749063) is a 750 acre (300 hectare) site situated at Moses Gate in the Croal and Irwell Valleys 3 miles (5 km) south of Bolton town centre on the A6053 r…
Moorside railway station is located in the Moorside and Wardley areas of Swinton, near Manchester, England.
Mere is a civil parish and linear village along the A556 road in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, North West England, about 7 km (4.3 mi) south-west of Altrincham. Bucklow Hill is at its northeast end, an…
Livesey is a civil parish in the unitary borough of Blackburn with Darwen, in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England.
Rivington in the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, is situated on the edge of the West Pennine Moors, at the foot of Rivington Pike overlooking reservoirs created by Liverpool Corporation water works in the 19th century.
Sharpe and Paley was a partnership of two architects who practised from an office in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, between 1845 and 1856. Founded by Edmund Sharpe in 1835, the practice flourished for more than a century, until 1946. It had grown t…
HM Prison Hindley is a maleprison , located in the village of Bickershaw (near Wigan) in Greater Manchester, England.
Hall i' th' Wood railway station is the last stop before Bolton on the Northern Rail franchise's Ribble Valley Line into Blackburn and Clitheroe in England.
Hale railway station serves the area of Hale in the south of Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. It is located on Ashley Road.
The rural Entwistle railway station is served by Northern Rail services on the Manchester Victoria/Bolton 'Ribble Valley' Line towards Blackburn and Clitheroe in England.
The 1984 Eccles rail crash occurred on 4 December 1984 at Eccles, Greater Manchester, when an express passenger train collided at speed with the rear of a freight train of oil tankers. The driver of the express and two passengers were killed, and 68…
Eccles Interchange is a transport hub in Eccles, Greater Manchester, England. It is composed of a bus station, and a single-platform Metrolink light rail station, the latter of which is the terminus of the system's Eccles Line.
Daisy Hill railway station serves the Daisy Hill area of Westhoughton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.