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By John Sharrock Taylor

An old Celtic payment, Wigan stands at the River Douglas with its face to the Pennine foothills, eight miles south-west of Bolton and 20 miles from the South Lancashire coast. defined in 1698 as 'a lovely marketplace city equipped of stone and brick', Wigan used to be greatly remodeled by means of the 1st and moment commercial revolutions and, for a century or extra, cotton was once king. whereas it really is famous for its pies, its mint balls, its cup-winning rugby and football groups, its icons of track, degree and reveal, and its thick jam butties, Wigan is much more well-known for its semi-mythical pier. yet after 2,000 years of continuous switch, there's even more of curiosity or even of undying, sylvan attractiveness during this previous city and its surrounding villages.

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