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Claptrap is it? Commonly known as 'fact'.

Did you know that you could throw a stone, literally, from the Owls Nest to Seneley Green?

As for you never hearing the word (two words, actually) Seneley Green, well, anybody who paid rates (council tax) would have heard it, because they would have had to pay the 'parish precept' for living in it. But, again, that fact is probably too much for you to understand?

Another fact is, when the 'local government act 1972' was finalised, in 1972 (you know, the one that put Downall Green in St.Helens?) no boundaries were changed. Seneley Green Parish was included into St.Helens and the rest of Ashton in Makerfield was included in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan .

Like I said earlier, before this date, Downall Green was under Ashton in Makerfield UDC. Haydock was under Haydock UDC.
Both are now in St.Helens, which is a Metropolitan Borough.

If you don't like it, complain to Conor McGinn, MP for St.Helens North.
Other than that ..... Suck it up, Buttercup!