General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

And Wigan had water, because Mills need water, waterwheels to turn the looms, and water to wash and dye the cottons, and Wigan being at a low point was and is at the conflooences of several tributaries of the River Douglas, these being Close Brook, Barley Brook, Glass Brook, Clarington Brook, Poolstock Brook, Hawkley Brook, Sniffy Brook etc