Abram
Abram is a village and electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It lies on flat land on the northeast bank of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 2 miles west of Leigh, 3 miles southeast of Wigan, and 14.5 miles west of Manchester.
- Type: Village with 9,860 residents
- Description: village in Greater Manchester, England, UK
- Also known as: “Abram, Greater Manchester”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dover Bridge and HM Prison Hindley.
HM Prison Hindley
Prison
HM Prison Hindley is an adult male prison located in the village of Bickershaw in Greater Manchester, England and operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.
Newbridge Learning Community
School
This is a list of schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in the English county of Greater Manchester.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bamfurlong and Platt Bridge.
Bamfurlong
Village
Platt Bridge
Village
Platt Bridge is a settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, 2 miles south of Wigan town centre along the spine of the A573 road.
Stubshaw Cross
Suburb
Ashton-in-Makerfield is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, 4 miles south of Wigan. As of the 2021 census, there was a population of 26,380.
Abram
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Wigan, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.50867° or 53° 30′ 31″ north
Longitude
-2.59524° or 2° 35′ 43″ west
Population
9,860
Elevation
125 feet (38 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB ARZ
Open location code
9C5VGC53+FW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Abram” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Abram (Manchester Handia)”
- Basque: “Abram”
- Bengali: “আব্রাম”
- Cebuano: “Abram”
- Chinese: “阿布拉罕”
- Dutch: “Abram, Greater Manchester”
- French: “Abram”
- German: “Abram”
- Gujarati: “અબ્રામ”
- Irish: “Abram”
- Japanese: “アブラム”
- Kannada: “ಅಬ್ರಾಮ್”
- Korean: “아브람”
- Lithuanian: “Abramas”
- Polish: “Abram (Greater Manchester)”
- Polish: “Abram”
- Portuguese: “Abram”
- Russian: “Абрам”
- Russian: “Абрэм”
- Spanish: “Abram”
- Swedish: “Abram, England”
- Swedish: “Abram”
- Tamil: “அப்ராம்”
- Telugu: “అబ్రం”
- Urdu: “ابرام، گریٹر مانچسٹر”
- Welsh: “Abram, Manceinion Fwyaf”
- Welsh: “Abram”
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