Higher Green
Higher Green is a hamlet in Wigan, England. Higher Green is situated nearby to the town Astley, as well as near the hamlet Lower Green.Places of Interest
Highlights include Astley Green Colliery Museum and Damhouse.
Astley Green Colliery Museum
Museum
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The Astley Green Colliery Museum is a heritage museum in Astley near Tyldesley in Greater Manchester, England, operated by the Red Rose Steam Society. The site was originally a working colliery that produced coal from 1912 until its closure in 1970 and is now protected as a Scheduled Monument.
Damhouse
Manor estate
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Damhouse or Astley Hall is a Grade II* listed building in Astley, a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It has served as a manor house, sanatorium, and since restoration in 2000, houses offices, a clinic, nursery and tearooms.
St Stephen’s Church, Astley
Church
St Stephen's Church is a parish church located in Astley, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican church built in 1968, and it is part of the Leigh deanery in the archdeaconry of Salford diocese of Manchester.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Astley and Boothstown.
Astley
Town
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Astley is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, it is crossed by the Bridgewater Canal and the A580 East Lancashire Road.
Boothstown
Village
Photo: Tony Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boothstown is a suburban village in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. Boothstown forms part of the Boothstown and Ellenbrook ward, which had a population at the 2011 Census of 9,599.
Tyldesley
Town
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Tyldesley is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, it is north of Chat Moss near the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, eight miles southeast of Wigan and nine miles northwest of Manchester.
Higher Green
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: Wigan, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.49824° or 53° 29′ 54″ northLongitude
-2.44751° or 2° 26′ 51″ westOpen location code
9C5VFHX2+7XOpenStreetMap ID
node 30416817OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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