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Bickershaw

Bickershaw is a village, effectively a suburb of Abram, within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.

The place

Bickershaw is a village, effectively a suburb of Abram, within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. Historically in Lancashire, Bickershaw is 3 miles (4.8 km) south-southeast of Wigan.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bickershaw

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Leigh Sports Village

    Leigh Sports Village is a multi-use sports, retail and housing development in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. The centrepiece of the development is a 12,000-capacity stadium which is home to professional rugby league team Leigh Leopards, the Manchester United Women's senior team, and Manchester United's men's Under-21 and Academy teams.

    3.2 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Leigh

    St Joseph's Church is an active Roman Catholic church in, Leigh in Greater Manchester, England. It is in the parish of St Edmund Arrowsmith.

    4 km · grade II listed building in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary the Virgin's Church, Leigh

    The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Church of England parish church in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. It is a member of the Salford & Leigh deanery in the archdeaconry of Salford, diocese of Manchester.

    3.1 km · church in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St James' Church, Daisy Hill

    St James' Church is in the Daisy Hill district of Westhoughton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Church of England parish church in the Diocese of Manchester and is part of the Bolton deanery and Bolton archdeaconry.

    3.8 km · church in Westhoughton, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Christ Church, Pennington

    Christ Church is an active Anglican parish church in Pennington, Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. Christ Church serves the parish of Pennington in the Leigh Deanery and Salford Archdeaconry in the Diocese of Manchester.

    3.5 km · church in Pennington, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Leigh Union workhouse

    Leigh Union workhouse, also known as the Leigh workhouse and after 1930, Atherleigh Hospital, was a workhouse built in 1850 by the Leigh Poor Law Union on Leigh Road, Atherton in the historic county of Lancashire.

    2.9 km · building in Atherton, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Michael and All Angels' Church, Howe Bridge

    St Michael and All Angels' Church is in Leigh Road, Howe Bridge, a suburb of Atherton, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Leigh, the archdeaconry of Salford and the diocese of Manchester.

    3.6 km · church in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Peter's Church, Westleigh

    St Peter's Church is in Firs Lane, Westleigh, a district of Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Leigh, the archdeaconry of Salford, and the diocese of Manchester.

    2.2 km · church in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Abram Council Offices

    Abram Council Offices is a municipal building in Warrington Road, Abram, Greater Manchester, England. The building is currently used as private apartments.

    2.1 km · municipal building in Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Hindley Town Hall

    Hindley Town Hall, also known as Hindley Council Offices, is a municipal building in Cross Street, Hindley, Greater Manchester, England. The building is currently used by Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council for the delivery of local health and social care services.

    2.9 km · municipal building in Greater Manchester, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Bickershaw

Airports
Manchester (MAN), 26 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 27 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 71 km
Stations
Hindley railway station, 3.5 km · Atherleigh railway station, 2.7 km · Howe Bridge railway station, 3.8 km · Leigh bus station, 3.4 km · Hindley Green railway station, 1.5 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Bickershaw
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bickershaw
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £14–19
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Bickershaw
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bickershaw

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bickershaw. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextManchester is an unmissable lively city, an easy day trip from Bolton.

From Wikivoyage: Bolton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    283 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    296 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    319 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    326 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    345 km

If you know how people move in Bickershaw – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bickershaw

Bickershaw is 22 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Leightown in Greater Manchester, England, UK3.4 km
  • Hindleytown within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England2.6 km
  • Abramvillage in Greater Manchester, England, UK1.8 km
  • Bamfurlongvillage in Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Westleighsuburb in Leigh, Greater Manchester, UK2 km
  • Hindley Greenvillage in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England1.7 km