General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Jo anne, this is from Wigan council's "local nature reserve" spiel.
The very same spiel that informs loyal and easily led Wiganers that "the
river (Douglas) was used to transport coal
from Wigan down to the Mersey and from there upriver to Manchester or downriver to Liverpool. "


Description
"Numerous areas of wetland and open water known as ‘Flashes’ occupy a central corridor of
land associated with low-lying areas within the ‘Makerfield Basin’. They tend to be located to
either side of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and Hey Brook ......"