Billinge Colliery Wood

Billinge Colliery Wood is a forest in Billinge Chapel End, St. Helens, England. Billinge Colliery Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Leyland Green, as well as near the village Garswood.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Garswood railway station and Winstanley College.

Garswood railway station

Railway station

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Garswood railway station serves the village of Garswood in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England. It is situated on the electrified Merseytravel Liverpool to Wigan City Line, 15 miles northeast of Liverpool Lime Street.

Winstanley College

College

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Winstanley College is a sixth-form college in the Billinge Higher End area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester.

St Mary's Church is an active Roman Catholic church along Birchley Road, Billinge, St Helens, Merseyside, England. Belonging to the archdiocese of Liverpool, the church was built in 1828, and extended later in that century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Helens and Wigan.

St Helens

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St Helens is a town in Merseyside in England, 14 miles northeast of Liverpool. It was historically part of Lancashire, but in 1974 became a separate metropolitan borough.

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.

Ashton-in-Makerfield

Town

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Ashton-in-Makerfield is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, 4 miles south of Wigan. As of the 2021 census, there was a population of 26,380.