Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Wigan. You may be able to find further references to Wigan in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
WIGAN	a town, a township, a parish, and a district	Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Wigan.

Place	Type of entry	Source
ABRAM	a chapelry	Imperial
Billinge	ecclesiastical district	Bartholomew
BILLINGE	a village, two townships, and a chapelry	Imperial
Billinge Chapel End	township	Bartholomew
Dalton	township	Bartholomew
DALTON	a township	Imperial
Goose Green	hamlet	Bartholomew
GOOSE GREEN	a hamlet	Imperial
Haigh	township and village	Bartholomew
Hall Green	hamlet	Bartholomew
Hindley	township	Bartholomew
Hindley Green	hamlet with railway station	Bartholomew
Ince	railway station	Bartholomew
INCE-IN-MAKERFIELD	a township and a chapelry	Imperial
Lamberhead Green	village	Bartholomew
Lowe Green	village	Bartholomew
Orrell	town and township	Bartholomew
ORRELL	a village and a township	Imperial
Pemberton	town and township with railway station	Bartholomew
Pennington Green	village	Bartholomew
PENNINGTON-GREEN	a village	Imperial
Roby Mill	hamlet	Bartholomew
ROBY-MILL	a hamlet	Imperial
SCHOLES	a ward	Imperial
Tontine	village	Bartholomew
Upholland	town	Bartholomew
Winstanley	township	Bartholomew
WINSTANLEY	a township	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Wigan within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Cheshire and Lancashire	6
George Head	Liverpool	5
George Head	North Lancashire	5
Daniel Defoe	Letter 10: Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland	4
William Camden	Durham, Lancashire and Westmorland	2
John Wesley	1765-8: Justice for Methodists; Methodist Character; Instructions to Parents	2
Thomas Pennant	September 18-23: The Borders and back to Cheshire	2
Robert Gammage	Hampshire, Lancashire, and final reflections	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Pemberton	0	2
Goose Green	0	2
Highfield	0	1
Ince in Makerfield	0	3
Orrell	0	2
New Springs	0	1
Winstanley	0	2
Platt Bridge	0	1
Haigh	0	2
Standish	0	2
Bryn	0	1
Tontine	0	2
Shevington	0	2
Aspull	0	2
Pennington Green	0	2
Ashton in Makerfield	0	2
Billinge	0	4
Hindley	0	2
Worthington	1	2
Upholland	1	2