what sort of industries created an impact here?
Textile industry.
Wigan
As a mill town, Wigan was an important centre of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution,
where is wigan on the map of england On the main western north-south highway with distance markers to Preston and Warrington. is it a city? No, but a large town. did romans ever settle in the town before? Yes, In the 1st century, the area was conquered by the Romans.
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Wigan [SEP] Industrial Revolution
The canal from Liverpool to Leeds was originally to serve Wigan on a spur, transporting cloth and food grown on the West Lancashire Plain to the Port of Liverpool. When construction restarted in the 1790s, after decades pause, as coal was rising in importance due to the progress of the Industrial Revolution. The route was altered at the request of mill owners, with the spur becoming the primary route and Wigan a hub for transport of coal from the Lancashire coal pits to Liverpool and Leeds. As a mill town, Wigan was an important centre of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, but it was not until the 1800s that cotton factories began to spread into the town.