Lowton
Lowton is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It is around 2 miles from Leigh, 7 miles south of Wigan and 12 miles west of Manchester city centre.- Type: Town with 14,600 residents
- Description: village in Greater Manchester, UK
- Also known as: “Lowton, Greater Manchester”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St. Luke and Lowton St Mary’s railway station.
Lowton St Mary’s railway station
Historic site
Lowton St Mary's railway station served the scattered community of Lowton, then in Lancashire, now in Greater Manchester, England. It was situated immediately south of the A572 bridge over the tracks.
St Mary’s Church, Lowton
Church
St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in Newton Road, Lowton, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It is in the deanery of Winwick, the archdeaconry of Warrington, and the diocese of Liverpool.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kenyon and Golborne.
Kenyon
Village
Kenyon is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Croft, in the Warrington district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 259.
Golborne
Town
Golborne is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies 5 miles south-south-east of Wigan, 6 miles north-east of Warrington and 14 miles to the west of the city of Manchester.
Hermitage Green
Hamlet
Hermitage Green is a hamlet near the village of Winwick in Cheshire, England. It is also the location of St Oswald's Well. It is said that after the death of King Oswald 5th August AD642 that people came to visit the site where Oswald was killed and where the Well had sprung as Oswald fell. Hermitage Green is situated 2½ miles southwest of Lowton.
Lowton
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Wigan, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.47197° or 53° 28′ 19″ north
Longitude
-2.56976° or 2° 34′ 11″ west
Population
14,600
Elevation
112 feet (34 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB LWN
Open location code
9C5VFCCJ+Q3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Welsh—“Lowton” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “লোওটন”
- Chinese: “劳頓”
- Chinese: “勞顿”
- Chinese: “大曼徹斯特郡”
- Dutch: “Lowton”
- French: “Lowton”
- German: “Lowton”
- Gujarati: “લોટન”
- Irish: “Lowton”
- Japanese: “ロウトン”
- Kannada: “ಲೋಟನ್”
- Korean: “로우턴”
- Lithuanian: “Lautonas”
- Polish: “Lowton”
- Portuguese: “Lowton”
- Russian: “Лоутон”
- Spanish: “Lowton”
- Swedish: “Lowton”
- Tamil: “லௌட்டான்”
- Telugu: “లౌటన్”
- Urdu: “لواوٹن”
- Welsh: “Lowton”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Catherine’s Catholic Primary School, Lowton and St Luke’s CofE Primary School.
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