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

Three wars, three years. The numbering is strange to me, as there was only one war, and a part of it was fought on Wigan lane, and the Parish Church was damaged in a skirmish.


There was fighting at Wigan in 1644 and 1651, and much confiscation by the Commonwealth authorities. The Restoration appears to have been generally welcomed. At the Revolution there was much more division, but no open opposition was made, and the Jacobite rising of1715 does not seem to have had any adherents in the parish. The march of the Young Pretender through Wigan, Ince, and Hindley in 1745 brought in no recruits. The more recent history has, as in the north of England generally, been that of the growth of manufactures and commerce.

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