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Wigan Greenheart

Leigh, Makerfield, Wigan

Huge area of urban greenland, few facilities but walking, cycling, nature and sport

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Wigan ‘Greenheart’ is signposted, rightly. Under‐promoted—no public map, so the map here is a guess with only some areas labelled (one source lists eighteen sites). Paths everywhere, often good. Mostly quiet with urban sound effects. Eight and a half miles of at least semi‐managed greenland, for example, it contains Wigan’s ‘flash’ area (marked on the map). Greenheart is not scenic, and contains no national attractions, but has a flow of small‐scale interest—‐canals, Sites of Special Scientific Interest, the flashes, and the entertainment riot of Haigh Country Park. Greenheart is mostly visited in parts and for purpose—‘let’s go for a bike‐ride’. Only worth travelling for with specific interests… but somewhere quiet, big enough to be worth the word ‘explore’, and a resource for not one but three wards, must be noted.

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