Golborne: Small Wigan Borough Town Between the M6 and the East Lancashire Road
Golborne sits in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, about five miles south of Wigan and three miles north of Newton-le-Willows. The population is around 11,000. The town was a coal mining settlement, with the Golborne Colliery disaster of 1979 killing ten miners in one of the last major pit disasters in England. A memorial on the High Street honours them. The town centre along High Street and Church Street has a quiet, local character. St Thomas's Church dates to 1829. Golborne is close to the M6 at junction 23 and the A580 East Lancashire Road, which puts it on the main routes between Manchester and Liverpool without the town itself being particularly large or well known.
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Golborne sits in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, about five miles south of Wigan and three miles north of Newton-le-Willows. The population is around 11,000. The town was a coal mining settlement, with the Golborne Colliery disaster of 1979 killing ten miners in one of the last major pit disasters in England. A memorial on the High Street honours them. The town centre along High Street and Church Street has a quiet, local character. St Thomas's Church dates to 1829. Golborne is close to the M6 at junction 23 and the A580 East Lancashire Road, which puts it on the main routes between Manchester and Liverpool without the town itself being particularly large or well known.
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