Chair Wood
Chair Wood is a forest in Wigan, England. Chair Wood is situated nearby to the suburb Longshaw, as well as near the village Billinge.Places of Interest
Highlights include Orrell railway station and Winstanley College.
Orrell railway station
Railway station
Photo: Raymond Knapman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Orrell railway station serves the Orrell area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It is a small two-platform commuter hub on the Kirkby branch line from Wigan.
Winstanley College
College
Photo: Gary Rogers, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Winstanley College is a sixth-form college in the Billinge Higher End area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester.
Pemberton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Peter Whatley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pemberton railway station serves the Pemberton area of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. It is on the Kirkby branch line from Wigan Wallgate. The station was opened on 20 November 1848 by the Liverpool and Bury Railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wigan and Ashton-in-Makerfield.
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.
Ashton-in-Makerfield
Town
Photo: Rodhullandemu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Winstanley
Suburb
Photo: Andy Gibson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Winstanley is a suburb of Wigan in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, the area had a population of 15,849, reducing at the 2011 census to 11,264.
Chair Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Wigan, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.5108° or 53° 30′ 39″ northLongitude
-2.6964° or 2° 41′ 47″ westOpen location code
9C5VG863+8COpenStreetMap ID
way 35160291OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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