History of Wigan   (Help with ancient and recent history.)

Stubshaw Cross is a hamlet in Ashton in Makerfield, not included in the Wigan Urban Area. It is under Wigan council and mail is delivered from Wigan sorting office.

Of course Wigan is not just Standishgate. Wigan is a town in its own right. Standishgate is only a street.

Regardless of what some people write on the internet, it's a fact that coal cannot be taken from under Wigan in any quantity. It's too deep.
That's Wigan, by the way. Not all the other towns, with different names, that are under the authority of the same council.

Wigan was, primarily, a commercial town and a mill-town.