In & Around Wigan Through Time

An ancient Celtic settlement, Wigan stands on the River Douglas with its face to the Pennine foothills, 8 miles south-west of Bolton and 20 miles from the South Lancashire coast. Described in 1698 as ''a pretty market town built of stone and brick'', Wigan was radically transformed by the first and second industrial revolutions and, for a century or more, cotton was king. While it is well-known fo...