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Aspull is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, Aspull, along with Haigh , is surrounded by greenbelt and agricultural land, separated from Westhoughton , on its southeast side, by a brook running through Borsdane Wood .
Aspull is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The village and the surrounding countryside contain 21 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
Haigh (/ h eɪ /) is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. [2] Historically part of Lancashire, it is located next to the village of Aspull. The western boundary is the River Douglas, which separates the township from Wigan.
The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England.It is named after its largest town, Wigan, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of Atherton, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Golborne, Hindley, Ince-in-Makerfield, Leigh and Tyldesley.
Gidlow Hall is a scheduled ancient monument dating from 1574 in Aspull, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester. [1] [2] The great hall was the residence of the Gidlow family, whose members included Robert de Gidlow, freeholder of Aspull in 1291.
Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, Hindley (which includes Hindley Green) borders the towns and villages of Ince-in-Makerfield, Aspull, Westhoughton, Atherton and Westleigh in the former borough of Leigh. [2] In 2001, Hindley had a population of 23,457, [3] increasing to 28,000 at the 2011 Census. [4]
The Snake Pit, based in Aspull, Wigan Borough, England, is the gym and organisation regarded as the home of catch wrestling. It is co-located with the Aspull Olympic Wrestling Club, which focuses on freestyle wrestling. [b] Founded in 1948 by Billy Riley in the town of Wigan, it was originally known as Riley's Gym. Riley was succeeded by Roy ...
Wigan Coal and Iron Company was the biggest colliery owner on the Lancashire Coalfield and in the 1920s employed 9,000 workers. [1] The shafts of Parsonage Colliery in Leigh, sunk by the company between 1913 and 1920, were at the time the deepest in Britain. [2] The company operated Bercune pit, an iron ore mine near Dalton in Furness until ...