The Westleigh School (formerly Westleigh High School) is a co-educational secondary school located in Leigh in the English county of Greater Manchester. It was first established by Lancashire County Council and became a comprehensive school in 1976. Later the school also gained a specialism in technology. Previously a community school administered by Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council, in August 2018 Westleigh High School converted to academy status and was renamed The Westleigh School.
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Westleigh is a suburb of Leigh, in the Wigan district, in the county of Greater Manchester, England. It was one of three ancient townships, Westleigh, Bedford and Pennington, that merged in 1875 to form the borough of Leigh.
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Atherleigh railway station served an area of Leigh in what was then Lancashire, England. It was located on the Bolton and Leigh Railway line which ran from Kenyon Junction to Bolton Great Moor Street.
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Howe Bridge Colliery was a coal mine which was part of the Fletcher, Burrows and Company's collieries at Howe Bridge in
Atherton, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England.
The Fletchers owned several small pits which eventually became the Howe Bridge Collieries.
In 1845 Howe Bridge Collieries owned by John Fletcher sank three deep shafts to the Seven Feet mine,
the Victoria pit where coal was wound was sunk to 447 feet, the Puffer for pumping water to 435 feet and the Volunteer, the upcast ventilation shaft. These last three pits were taken over by Manchester Collieries, became part of the National Coal Board in 1947 and closed in 1959.
After the pit closed Lancashire United Transport built a garage and bus repair works on the site.
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Leigh Union workhouse, also known as the Leigh workhouse and after 1930, Atherleigh Hospital, was a workhouse built in 1850 by the Leigh Poor Law Union on Leigh Road, Atherton in the historic county of Lancashire.
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Hindley Green railway station is a closed railway station in the Hindley Green area of Wigan, England, where Leigh Road bridged the line.
Hindley Green was within the historic county of Lancashire.
The school is now sponsored by the Shaw Education Trust. The Westleigh School offers GCSEs, BTECs and the CiDA as programmes of study for pupils.