Pemberton, Greater Manchester

infobox UK place
map_type= Greater Manchester
country = England
static_

static_image_caption=Pemberton Carnegie Library
official_name= Pemberton
latitude= 53.5360
longitude= -2.6738
population=
metropolitan_borough= Wigan
metropolitan_county= Greater Manchester
region= North West England
constituency_westminster= Wigan
post_town= WIGAN
postcode_district=WN5
postcode_area= WN
dial_code= 01942
os_grid_reference= SD5404
london_distance=

Pemberton is a mainly residential area of Wigan, Greater Manchester. England.cite web |url=http://www.gmcro.co.uk/guides/gazette/gazzo2r.htm |title=A select gazetteer of local government areas, Greater Manchester County |author=Anon |publisher=Greater Manchester County Records Office |accessdate=2007-04-03] The area today serves as a predominantly residential suburb. The area is contiguous to Wigan town centre.

History

There were several collieries in the area, and sandstone was also quarried. At Newtown were cotton mills and iron works. A well at Lamberhead Green (Pingate) was noted for its excellent water quality.Fact|date=February 2007 The area is served by Pemberton railway station.

Governance

Pemberton was formerly a township in Wigan ecclesiastical parish, [ [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Pemberton/ Pemberton] , Genuki - England and Ireland Genealogy - URL accessed February 16, 2007.] Diocese of Liverpool, (in the hundred of Newton), and was recognised as a separate civil parish in 1866. From 1894 to 1904, the Pemberton parish constituted the Pemberton Urban District. [ [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/sidocs.asp?SIR=O117251 Pemberton Urban District Council] , nationalarchives.gov.uk. URL accessed February 16, 2007.] In 1904 the urban district was abolished with its territory transferred to the borough and local government County Borough of Wigan. [ [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10375617 Vision of Britain] - Permberton CP] [Ext.and appl.in pt.(mods.) - L.G.B. Provisional.Order.Confn.(No.13) 1904 (c.clxii), art.11 of Wigan (Extn.) O.] The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica describes Pemberton as being part of the town of Wigan (which then formed 5082 acres). [Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, (1911)] In 1920, the Pemberton parish was abolished and its former area was used to enlarge the Wigan parish, making the area of the parish and county borough identical. [ [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10385088&c_id=10001043 Vision of Britain] - Wigan CP ( [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10385088&c_id=10001043 historic map] )] Pemberton today is considered part of Wigan for purposes of the Office for National Statistics, and in most reputable contemporary publications. [cite book |author=Youngs, F. |title=Local Administrative Units: Northern England |publisher=London: Royal Historical Society |date=1991 |pages=192] This is also the approach taken also in several other modern online sources, which omit Pemberton as a standalone settlement. [ [http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/towns/wigan2.html Towns & Villages of Wigan] , manchester2002-uk.com, URL accessed April 4, 2007.] [ [http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/m_display.php?irn=246&sub=nwcotton&theme=places&crumb=Wigan ROUND AND ABOUT WIGAN] , spinningtheweb.org.uk, URL accessed April 4, 2007.]

Wards

The electoral ward of Pemberton covers the following neighbourhoods:

*Kitt Green
*Lamberhead Green (Orrell)
*Marsh Green

Pemberton is part of the Douglas ward.

Geography

Pemberton is predominantly made up of privately owned homes and local authority maintained housing, including Worsley Mesnes, Norley Hall, Marsh Green and Kitt Green. Pemberton and its adjoining district of Orrell form one continuous residential area.

References

External links

* [http://www.wigan.gov.uk/Services/CommunityLiving/Townships/WiganSouth/ Wigan South] , Wigan MBC.