Higher Ince

Higher Ince is a quarter in Wigan, England. Higher Ince is situated nearby to the suburb Ince-in-Makerfield, as well as near the quarter Rose Bridge.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ince railway station and Christ Church.

Ince railway station

Railway station

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Ince railway station serves the Ince area of Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester. The station is on the Manchester-Southport Line 17¼ miles north west of Manchester Victoria.

Christ Church is in Ince Green Lane, Lower Ince, Ince-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wigan, the archdeaconry of Warrington, and the diocese of Liverpool.

Rose Bridge

Bridge

Photo: David Long, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ince-in-Makerfield and Scholes.

Ince-in-Makerfield

Suburb

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Ince-in-Makerfield or Ince is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. The population of the Ince ward at the 2011 census was 13,486, but a southern part of Ince was also listed under the Abram ward.

Scholes

Suburb

Scholes is an urban area in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Scholes is immediately to the east of Wigan's town centre; separated from the commercial area by the River Douglas.

Wigan

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Wigan is an industrial town in Greater Manchester in the north of England. It's 17 miles northwest of central Manchester and until 1974 was part of Lancashire. In 2019 the population was 108,000.

Higher Ince

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

53.54119° or 53° 32′ 28″ north

Longitude

-2.60864° or 2° 36′ 31″ west

Elevation

157 feet (48 metres)

Open location code

9C5VG9RR+FG

OpenStreetMap ID

node 14170146857

OpenStreetMap feature

place=quarter

GeoNames ID

13268213

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In Other Languages

“Higher Ince” goes by many names.

Russian: “Хайер-Инс”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Rose Bridge and Lower Ince.

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Highlights include St William’s and St William’s Catholic Primary School.

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