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Fairy Glen Wigan
Possibly an ornamental garden area formed from what looks to be a quarried out ravine with small pond-reservoir above a small watefall, now overgrown and ruinous.
There are small footpaths and one larger, all overgrown and only accessible by a small loop, away from the main, modern paths of the area.
Disambiguation: There is another Fairy Glen on the Sprodley Brook at Appley Bridge that is better-known.
Local History
Historic monuments near Fairy Glen Wigan
- Up Holland Benedictine priory – 6.85 km away
- Headless Cross, Grimeford – 6.35 km away
- Bretters Farm moated site and two fishponds – 8.04 km away
- Round cairn on Noon Hill – 9.56 km away
- The Moat House moated site 600m WNW of St David’s Church – 2.09 km away
- Cross base on Standish Wood Lane 700m south east of Standish Hall – 2.78 km away
- Moated site at Arley Hall, Haigh near Wigan – 3.18 km away
- Mabs Cross on Standishgate, 20m west of Mabs Cross School building – 1.23 km away
- Gidlow Hall moated site, Aspull, 560m NNE of Pennington Hall – 3.81 km away
- Cross base at the junction of Standish Green Lane, Standish Wood Lane and Beech Walk, 200m NNW of Strickland House Farm, Standish – 3.27 km away
- Cross base on Green Lane 300m north of Strickland House Farm, Standish – 3.25 km away
- Market cross in the marketplace to the west of St Wilfrid’s Church, Standish – 3.70 km away
- Winstanley moated site and five fishponds – 6.00 km away
- Haigh Sough mine drainage portal, 310m west of Park House – 0.50 km away