Wigan Pier

Wigan Pier Wigan’s Canal Haunt of Echoes

Wigan Pier, stretching along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, emerged in the 18th century as a coal and cotton hub, its warehouses and wharfs immortalized by Orwell in 1937. Reborn as a heritage site in the 1980s, its cranes and cobbles recall Wigan’s industrial grit. Still a draw today, its gritty past hums with Wigan ghost stories […]

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