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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This is a list of football teams based in Greater Manchester sorted by which league they play in as of the 2024–25 season. The leagues are listed in order...
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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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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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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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The Leigh-Salford-Manchester Bus Rapid Transit service 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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Leigh Leopards are a professional rugby league club based in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. Leigh play homes games at Leigh Sports Village and compete...
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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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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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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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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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Westleigh is a suburb of Leigh, in the Wigan district, in the county of Greater Manchester, England. It was one of three ancient townships, Westleigh...
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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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Sian Brice (category Sportspeople from Leigh, Greater Manchester)
1969) is a triathlete from the United Kingdom. She was born in Leigh, Greater Manchester. Brice competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer...
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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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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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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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Trevor Mann (category People from Leigh, Greater Manchester)
one of Nissan's longest-serving employees. Mann was born in April 1961 in Leigh, Lancashire. At age 15, Trevor moved to Durham, where he studied manufacturing...
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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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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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Lynda Lee-Potter (category People from Leigh, Greater Manchester)
Lynda Higginson was born into a working-class family in the mining town of Leigh, Lancashire. Her father, Norman, was a miner who would later turn to painting...
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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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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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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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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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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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