Bickershaw
Bickershaw is a village, effectively a suburb of Abram, within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.
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.
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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.
- 01Leigh 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 - 02St 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 - 03St 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 - 04St 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 - 05Christ 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 - 06Leigh 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 - 07St 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 - 08St 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 - 09Abram 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 - 10Hindley 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
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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 → Bickershaw74 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bickershaw113 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £14–19
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Bickershaw123 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £13–17
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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.
- Go nextManchester is an unmissable lively city, an easy day trip from Bolton.
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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