Scholes
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: area in Wigan, Greater Manchester, UK
- Also known as: “Scholes, Greater Manchester” and “Scholes, Wigan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Catharine’s Church, Scholes and St John’s Church, Wigan.
St Catharine’s Church, Scholes
Church
Photo: S Parish, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Catharine's Church is in Lorne Street, Scholes, 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.
St John’s Church, Wigan
Church
Photo: David Long, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Wigan North Western Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: The Voice of Hassocks, Public domain.
Wigan North Western is one of two railway stations that serve the town centre of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England; the other is Wigan Wallgate, 110 yards away.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wigan and Wigan Pier.
Wigan
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.
Wigan Pier
Quarter
Photo: Chris55, Public domain.
Wigan Pier is an area around the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, south-west of the town centre. The name has humorous or ironic connotations since it conjures an image of a seaside pleasure pier, whereas Wigan is inland and a traditionally industrial town.
Worsley Mesnes
Suburb
Worsley Mesnes is a suburb of Wigan in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. The ward population at the 2011 census was 11,974. Worsley Mesnes is situated 2 miles southwest of Scholes.
Scholes
- Category: locality
- Location: Wigan, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.54808° or 53° 32′ 53″ northLongitude
-2.61639° or 2° 36′ 59″ westOpen location code
9C5VG9XM+6COpenStreetMap ID
node 30416830OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q7432088
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In Other Languages
“Scholes” goes by many names.
- Swedish: “Scholes, Greater Manchester”
- Swedish: “Scholes, Wigan”
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