Wigan Town Hall

The new Town Hall is a former technical college in Library Street, Wigan, England which was converted into a municipal facility in 1990. It is a Grade II listed building.

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Photo: Phil Platt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Type: Town hall
Description: town hall on Library Street, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Also known as: “Town Hall”, “Town Hall (formerly Wigan and District Mining and Technical College) and railings”, and “Wigan and District Mining and Technical College”
Address: Library Street, Wigan

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Museum of Wigan Life and Wigan North Western Railway Station.

Museum of Wigan Life

Museum

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The Museum of Wigan Life is a public museum and local history resource centre in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The nineteenth-century listed building is by the noted architect Alfred Waterhouse. Museum of Wigan Life is situated 370 feet south of Wigan Town Hall.

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. Wigan North Western Railway Station is situated 910 feet southwest of Wigan Town Hall.

Wigan Wallgate Railway Station

Railway station

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Wigan Wallgate is one of two railway stations serving the town centre of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England; the other is Wigan North Western, which is 100 metres away across the street named Wallgate. Wigan Wallgate Railway Station is situated 930 feet west of Wigan Town Hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wigan and Wigan Pier.

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.

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.

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 Town Hall

Categories: city hall, building, historic site, historic building, and government building
Location: Wigan, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.54513° or 53° 32′ 43″ north

Longitude

-2.62995° or 2° 37′ 48″ west

Operator

Wigan Council

Open location code

9C5VG9WC+32

OpenStreetMap ID

way 278308672

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=townhall

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=building

Wikidata ID

Q26664321

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