Longshoot

Longshoot is a suburb in Wigan, England. Longshoot is situated nearby to the suburb Scholes, as well as near Whelley.

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Mary’s Church, Wigan and St John’s Church, Wigan.

St Mary’s Church, Wigan

Church

St Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in the Standishgate area of Wigan, Greater Manchester. It was built in 1818 and is a Grade II* listed building.

St John's Church is a Roman Catholic Church in Standishgate, Wigan, Greater Manchester. It is within 200 feet of another Catholic church, St Mary's. Construction on both churches, was done in a spirit of competition, so they both were finished in the same year, 1819.

Church of St George

Church

Photo: David Long, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Scholes and Wigan.

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

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

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.

Ince-in-Makerfield

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Longshoot

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

53.5502° or 53° 33′ 1″ north

Longitude

-2.62161° or 2° 37′ 18″ west

Elevation

184 feet (56 metres)

Open location code

9C5VH92H+39

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1397386047

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

GeoNames ID

13268284

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