Wigan boundaries

Can anybody tell me where exactly the boundaries of Wigan are (not the borough)?

No, but I know a man who can!

Not heard from him for a while. Presume he is house building!!!

he must be having 40 winks,someone give him a shout tell him he,s wanted.

I think he may know.

tonker has left the building.

Guess I'll have to wait till he's back then.

Could be the making of a new game.

Run your cursor around a map. If you get it wrong;

Zap!!

Hello Crazymoose.

crazymoose

Which Wigan boundary do you want to know about

I'm a bit surprised nobody has answered this one yet.

Hello and welcome, Crazymoose.

Is this crazymoose not Tonker farting about.....

Surely not APLS.

You don't think there's a moose loose aboot this metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in North West England. It is named after its largest component town, Wigan and also includes the towns of Leigh, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Ince-in-Makerfield, and Hindley. The borough was formed in 1974 and is an amalgamation of several former local government districts and parishes. The borough has three civil parishes and lies directly to the west of the City of Salford and southwest of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton. Do you?

Eyup!

a) Wigan is nowhere near the 'largest component town' in the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester named after it!

Wigan isn't as big as Pemberton. Even both of them put together and known as 'the former county borough of Wigan' aren't as big as Ashton in Makerfield.

b) Wigan borough doesn't lie 'directly to the west of the City of Salford' either.

It lies directly to the west of the 'metropolitan borough of the City of Salford'.

God Almighty! You just couldn't make it up, could you?

Somebody in Wikipedia did.

Here

That's a copy of what the council say on their promo site.

But, it's all lies and shite! Just like all the other lies and shite the council spout!

please tonker just answer the question

Don't shoot the messenger.

Here's the answer to the question -

Starting at the industrial estate on Woodhouse Lane near Standish (lower ground) and going anticlockwise, the boundary of Wigan goes -

Down the River Douglas until where Poolstock Brook joins the river near the end of Baker Street. It then follows that brook until Poolstock Bridge (near Scotsman's Flash) and turns left, running alongside the canal to Warrington Road, Ince, when it joins Carrington Brook. It follows the brook near the canal almost to Rose Bridge, then goes off towards Whelley and joins another brook which runs under the road near the Alexandra pub and joins the River Douglas again behind that area they call Bottling Wood.
Then it goes up the River Douglas until about a quarter of a mile from Boars Head pub, where Wigan Lane stops. It then goes west, behind the cemetary and joins a brook running behind Acacia Crescent, on Beech Hill estate, which it follows down to the River Douglas near Standish lower ground where we started.

Which is, more or less, clearly shown on this map of Wigan Parish. All the surrounding places (Pemberton, Ince, Aspull, Haigh, Standish and Shevington) are also shown.

Wigan covers about 2300 acres / three and a half square miles.

You're only in Wigan when you're not somewhere else!

It took me ages to type that!

that ,s only 4 letters whats your prob.

Tonker..When the man was drawing that line did he get his feet wet?

@ jo anne Thanks for the welcome and hello from Germany.
@ Tonker Thanks for the answer! I will have a close look on the map and maybe one day be able to come to Wigan and find out about the boundaries myself.

@ dostaf Sorry, forgot, hello to you too of course.

And hello from Germany to everybody else!

More usernames than Harry.

I will wake tomorow to see him inavtive

www.antique-prints-maps.co.uk/acatalog/ref1.php?imagefile=../largeimages/MapJCWElectXLIV.JPG
This has a clear map of Tonker's description.

Mygriffiths' Link