Wigan, a town in Lancashire, 18 m. NW. of Manchester, in the centre of a large coal-field; cottons are the staple manufactures; is a place of ancient date, and has some fine buildings.
Population (circa 1900) given as 55,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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