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    Leigh is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, on low-lying land northwest of Chat Moss. Within the boundaries of the...
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    Leigh Sports Village is a multi-use sports, retail and housing development in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. The centrepiece of the development is...
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    The Leigh-Salford-Manchester Bus Rapid Transit scheme in Greater Manchester, England provides transport connections between Leigh, Atherton, Tyldesley...
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  • Manchester United Women Football Club is a professional football club based in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Women's Super League...
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  • The Leigh Leopards are a professional rugby league club based in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. Leigh play homes games at Leigh Sports Village and...
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    Leigh was a constituency in Greater Manchester represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. From 2019 to 2024, Leigh was held by James Grundy...
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  • Look up Leigh in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Leigh may refer to: Pronounced /ˈliː/: Leigh, Greater Manchester, Borough of Wigan Leigh (UK Parliament...
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    Murder of Lisa Hession (category Leigh, Greater Manchester)
    involved a sexually-motivated attack on a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Leigh, Greater Manchester, while she walked home from a party shortly before Christmas....
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  • This is a list of football teams based in Greater Manchester sorted by which league they play in as of the 2022–23 season. The leagues are listed in order...
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    The Lottery Winners (category Musical groups from Greater Manchester)
    The Lottery Winners are an indie pop band from Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. The band was formed in 2008 by Thom Rylance (vocals/guitar), Robert...
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    Atherton (/ˈæðərtən/) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England and historically part of Lancashire. The town, including...
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    Pennington, a suburb of Leigh, Greater Manchester is one of six townships in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Leigh, that with Westleigh and Bedford...
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    The Greater Manchester Built-up Area is an area of land defined by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), consisting of the large conurbation that encompasses...
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  • Matt Sarsfield (category Rugby league players from Leigh, Greater Manchester)
    Matt Sarsfield praises Centurions for top-class pre-season programme". Leigh Journal. 11 December 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2017. "Matthew Sarsfield"...
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    Greater Manchester is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders Lancashire to the north, Derbyshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Cheshire...
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  • Leigh is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. The town, together with its suburbs of Bedford, Westleigh and Pennington...
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  • martial arts when he was seven years old at the Leigh Self Defence Studio in Leigh, Greater Manchester. After being trained in Catch wrestling and boxing...
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    Wigan & Leigh College is a state further and higher education college based at five locations in the towns of Wigan and Leigh in Greater Manchester, England...
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    Westleigh, a suburb of Leigh, Greater Manchester, England, is one of three ancient townships, Westleigh, Bedford and Pennington, that merged in 1875 to...
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  • Gregg Warburton (category Sportspeople from Leigh, Greater Manchester)
    with Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Warburton was born in Leigh, Lancashire on 18 November 1996. He had his feet amputated at around six...
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  • Lancashire League. The club has been based in Leigh, Greater Manchester, and played at Grundy Hill, Hilton Park, Leigh Sports Village, and finally Crilly Park...
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    of Leigh, Greater Manchester is one of three ancient townships, Bedford, Pennington and Westleigh, that merged in 1875 to form the town of Leigh. Historically...
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    Jack Farrimond (category Rugby league players from Leigh, Greater Manchester)
    Super League. Jack Farrimond was born in Leigh in 2005 and began playing rugby league with amateur club Leigh Miners Rangers from age 5, the club which...
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    borough of Leigh. In 2001, Hindley had a population of 23,457, increasing to 28,000 at the 2011 Census. It forms part of the wider Greater Manchester Urban...
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  • finishing 5th in the table. Castleford Huddersfield Hull Hull KR Leeds Leigh Salford St Helens Warrington Wigan Broncos Catalans If a match ends in a...
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    Higher Folds (category Leigh, Greater Manchester)
    estate to the north-east of Leigh, in the Wigan district of Greater Manchester, England. It lies about 15 miles west of Manchester. In 2018 it had an estimated...
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  • James Hilton (novelist) (category People from Leigh, Greater Manchester)
    Miniver (1942), the latter earning him an Academy Award. Hilton was born in Leigh, Lancashire, the son of John Hilton, the headmaster of Chapel End School...
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    The Mayor of Greater Manchester is the directly elected mayor of Greater Manchester, responsible for strategic governance in the region that includes health...
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  • Leigh was a railway station in Bedford, Leigh, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom, on the London and North Western Railway. Leigh was in the historic...
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    Hyde is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 35,890 in 2021. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Cheshire...
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