Wigan and Leigh Archives

The Wigan Archives Service has well over 500,000 documents, photographs, maps and historic books in our collections. See more ...,

Thanks to volunteer Marianne Howell for providing an easier way to find and open articles from the back copies of PastForward.

A Searchable Reference List Of Documents, Books and Collections that are held by Archives.

The Archives has recently created an index of maps and a list of hard copy ordnance survey maps available at the Archives

A wonderful series of facebook posts celebrating the life and times of Rev. William Wickham, vicar of St. Andrew's, Sprinfield.

Haigh Hall - Wigan's Own Downton Abbey by Bill Melling