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History of Wigan (Help with ancient and recent history.)
Started by: MarieM (5563)
dostaf When we were young we called it Winky Hall. The Bankes family, as said, sold a lot of their land for house building for the Winstanley Estate and now owned by Dorbcrest Homes. Most of the Bankes family now live in Cheshire.
When the fishing club at Island Dam, on the two mile stretch wanted to put a tarmac drive down to the lake, they had to get the permission of the Bankes family so they obviously still own land round there.
Replied: 28th Feb 2013 at 20:53