Places   (Help with places, streets and buildings in Wigan.)

And as you so often ram down our throats Tonker,Ashton-in-Makerfield is NOT a town....its a district,or an area consisting of various seperately named areas,or villages,or districts within a particular border and given a singular,collective name just for convenience....And for someone who still doesn`t know exactly where the name Stubshaw came from you can hardly call yourself an authority on the matter.....A misconception is something that isn`t based on fact.(a bit like your opinion) I am quite happy that my statement IS based on fact.Most villages usually start around a farm,which provides food,a church which provides religeous sustinance,or an Inn,which provides drinkypoos,etc.....Would you agree with that? and I am talking about hundreds of years ago before the industrial revolution. According to the 1841 Census There was a farm on the poor ground known as the Two Stubshaws..Next to the farm was two small cottages.and further down Wood lane were three more cottages plus another farm...When asked where they lived, they all said `Stubshaw Cross`.... NOT Ashton,Not Wigan,but Stubshaw Cross. Do you know why they said that? No other occupants of houses in that area mentioned Stubshaw Cross. The next port of call was the Ram`s Head Inn and then Edge Green lane..The cross was fashioned,or created,by a man named John Launder in 1630 and placed in that same spot as the new cross is placed because he wanted people to know just where the poor fields were situated because they were out of sight of the main thoroughfare..So he created the cross and the cross created the village.As I am always saying Tonker, I have put in many,many hours of painstaking research before making my statements.all at my own expense and time.I suggest you use the same criteria before you try to damage my credibility......