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"

Indeed, but the one war was between three countries and it started in Ireland.. But, as well as the 'one war between three countries' there was an 'internal war' going on in England. THAT was the English Civil War.

The truth is that Wigan played a minor part in the civil war, much the same as most other places in England were all involved in a small way.