Bickershaw
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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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Within Vinony's link graph, Bickershaw is referenced by 17 other articles, and connects out to England, list of sovereign states and geographic coordinate system.
It sits within the topics Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and Villages in Greater Manchester.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Wigan
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 826
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Wigan
- Population
- 1405
- Image
- Saints James and Elizabeth, Bickershaw - geograph.org.uk - 77612.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01942
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- postal code
- WN2
- OS grid reference
- SD583055
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- Bickershaw
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Encyclopedic overview
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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.
The Bickershaw Festival was held here in 1972. Today the village is the location of the main entrance/access road to HMP Hindley, a juvenile prison and Young Offenders Institution mainly serving the Northwest UK, although the main building, HMP Hindley, is situated in neighbouring Hindley.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bickershaw” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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