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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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    The Leigh-Salford-Manchester Bus Rapid Transit service in Greater Manchester, England provides transport connections between Leigh, Atherton, Tyldesley...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Bedford, a suburb of Leigh, in the Wigan district, in the county of Greater Manchester, England. It was one of three ancient townships, Bedford, Pennington...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Leigh Town Hall is a municipal building in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. It stands in Civic Square at the junction with Market Street, facing Leigh...
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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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    church in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. It is a member of the Salford & Leigh deanery in the archdeaconry of Salford, diocese of Manchester. It is...
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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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    Shaun Keaveny (category People from Leigh, Greater Manchester)
    further 3 years. Keaveny grew up on the Higher Folds housing estate in Leigh, Lancashire. He attended St Mary's Catholic High School, Astley and then...
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    Leigh, in the Wigan district, in the county of Greater Manchester, England. It was one of six townships in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Leigh...
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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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  • a viewpoint to politicians Lobby (food), a thick stew made in Leigh, Greater Manchester and North Staffordshire, like Lancashire Hotpot Lobby (band),...
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    Pete Shelley (category People from Leigh, Greater Manchester)
    Canada in 1981 and 1982. Shelley was born to Margaret and John McNeish in Leigh, Lancashire. His mother was an ex-mill worker in the town and his father...
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