Porter’s Wood

Porter’s Wood is a building in Wigan, England which is located on Gathurst Road. Porter’s Wood is situated nearby to St John Rigby College, as well as near the forest Gathurst Wood.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Gathurst railway station and Gathurst Viaduct.

Gathurst railway station

Railway station

Photo: Kevin Waterhouse, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Gathurst railway station is a two-platform railway station on the outskirts of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The station is on the Southport line 2+3⁄4 miles north west of Wigan Wallgate station. Gathurst railway station is situated 2,800 feet northeast of Porter’s Wood.

Gathurst Viaduct carries the M6 motorway across the Douglas valley at Shevington, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The second largest bridge on the M6 motorway, it lies between junctions 26 and 27. Gathurst Viaduct is situated 3,100 feet north of Porter’s Wood.

Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Up Holland

Church

Photo: PC78, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Church of St Thomas the Martyr is in School Lane, Up Holland, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ormskirk, the archdeaconry of Warrington, and the diocese of Liverpool. Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Up Holland is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Porter’s Wood.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gathurst and Kitt Green.

Gathurst

Village

Photo: El Pollock, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Gathurst is the name given to a small section of the township of Shevington, a Civil Parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

Kitt Green

Suburb

Kitt Green is a suburb of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. It is the location of a Heinz food processing plant.

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.

Porter’s Wood

Type: Golf
Address: Gathurst Road, Orrell, Wigan, WN5 0LH
Categories: building and sports location
Location: Wigan, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.55257° or 53° 33′ 9″ north

Longitude

-2.70019° or 2° 42′ 1″ west

Open location code

9C5VH73X+2W

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1491423549

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

sport=golf

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