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

I've spent hundreds of hours scanning family history documents primarily census and church records. The original poster is trying to piece together info from the same sources. Here is the family i mentioned before, a church baptism record stating abode as being "Smithy Brow". A church never recorded a child's abode as being a business location i.e. a Smithy / today a blacksmith's. They noted the baptism book as being the street name but more commonly a local parocial area e.g. 'Ashton town' as can be seen in the records below that of Smithy Brow. There is similarly no street named Ashton Town, it's an area.