Higher End

Higher End is a suburb in Wigan, England. Higher End is situated nearby to the village Far Moor, as well as near the hamlet Tontine.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Orrell railway station and St Luke’s Church.

Orrell railway station

Railway station

Photo: Raymond Knapman, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Orrell railway station serves the Orrell area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It is a small two-platform commuter hub on the Kirkby branch line from Wigan.

St Luke's Church is in Lodge Road, Orrell, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wigan, the archdeaconry of Warrington, and the diocese of Liverpool.

Up Holland High School

School

Up Holland High School is a coeducational secondary school located in Up Holland, Lancashire, England. It is a non-denominational comprehensive school.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Longshaw and Orrell.

Longshaw

Suburb

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Longshaw is a small residential and agricultural area within Billinge Higher End at the western boundary of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.

Orrell

Village

Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Orrell is a suburb of Wigan in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The population of the ward had fallen at the 2011 Census to 11,513.

Up Holland

Village

Photo: Small-town hero, Public domain.

Up Holland is a village and civil parish in West Lancashire, England, 4 miles west of Wigan. The population at the 2011 census was 7,376.

Higher End

Type: Suburb
Category: locality
Location: Wigan, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.52583° or 53° 31′ 33″ north

Longitude

-2.71728° or 2° 43′ 2″ west

Elevation

361 feet (110 metres)

Open location code

9C5VG7GM+83

OpenStreetMap ID

node 9163193376

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

GeoNames ID

13267541

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