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The Flashes of Wigan and Leigh

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The Flashes of Wigan and Leigh is a National Nature Reserve in Greater Manchester of 7.4 km². It is one of two National Nature Reserves in the county. Ince (Manchester) Station is under a kilometre away. Abram Flashes and Haigh Country Park are among the nature reserves within 2.7 km.

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Photo of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, a 127-mile canal running from Leeds to Liverpool, England.Highlight

Leeds & Liverpool Canal

Canal

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

0.8 km NW · spans 5 counties

Photo of the Bridgewater Canal, a 39-mile canal running from Runcorn to Leigh, north west England.

Bridgewater Canal

Canal

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

1.1 km E · Greater Manchester & Cheshire

Photo of Wigan Pier, a landmark in Greater Manchester, north west England.Highlight

Wigan Pier

Landmark near Wigan

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

1.2 km NW

Photo of RHS Garden Bridgewater, a garden near Worsley, Greater Manchester, north west England.

RHS Garden Bridgewater

Garden near Worsley

The RHS's vast new garden in the old Worsley New Hall estate, with a huge walled garden and Chinese streamside.

9.3 km E

Photo of Worsley, a village in Greater Manchester, north west England.

Worsley

Village

Canal village on the Bridgewater with a distinctive black-and-white green and ochre-tinted water, now home to RHS Bridgewater.

10.2 km E · Greater Manchester

Photo of Rivington Terraced Gardens, a garden in Lancashire, north west England.Highlight

Rivington Terraced Gardens

Garden near Rivington

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

10.3 km N