Places to explore near Wigan

The Leeds & Liverpool waterfront Orwell made shorthand for hard times, its old warehouses now the heart of a canalside quarter.

0.6 km SW

The longest single canal in Britain, crossing the Pennines by Bingley's Five Rise Locks and the moors above Burnley.

0.6 km S · spans 5 counties

String of reservoirs below the West Pennine Moors, ringed by walking, cycling and riding trails.

9.8 km NE

Scattered West Pennine village below Rivington Pike, with a green, two churches and Lord Leverhulme's terraced gardens above.

10 km NE · Lancashire

Lord Leverhulme's atmospheric hillside gardens on Winter Hill, terraces and follies half-reclaimed by woodland.

10.2 km NE

Slender three-storey folly tower on the Rivington Terraced Gardens ridge, a landmark of the West Pennine Moors.

10.5 km NE

Picturesque reservoir edged by woods and moorland trails in the West Pennine Moors above Chorley.

11.4 km N

Tudor timbered hall with a great hammerbeam hall.

15.8 km NW

Wetland centre with wintering swans and geese.

17.7 km NW

The world's first swing aqueduct — a 235-foot iron trough that pivots aside, water and all, to let ships pass on the Manchester Ship Canal.

20.1 km SE

A Grade II-listed historic park and garden in Lancashire.

21.2 km N

Wooded reservoir on the edge of Lymm village, a peaceful circular walk of water, dingle and gorge.

21.3 km SE

Tall Victorian monument to Sir Robert Peel crowning Holcombe Hill above Ramsbottom, with wide Pennine views.

22.3 km NE

An early-Georgian mansion with one of Britain's largest winter gardens and a deer park.

24.2 km SE

The ordinary Liverpool semi where John Lennon grew up, kept as it was when his Aunt Mimi ran the house

24.9 km SW

A country park in Greater Manchester.

4.6 km N

A country park in Greater Manchester.

7.6 km SE

The Duke's canal of 1761 that began the Canal Age, crossing the Mersey flats between Manchester, Runcorn and Leigh.

9.3 km SE · Greater Manchester & Cheshire

A country park in Lancashire.

9.8 km NE