PEMBEC High School

PEMBEC High School (Pemberton Business and Enterprise College) was a state school in the Pemberton district of Wigan, Greater Manchester, with Business and Enterprise College status. The school had a "Gifted and Talented" programme that had given it its highest number of pupils with A and A*s at GCSE. PEMBEC was closed in August 2011, and the site was re-named 'Central Park'. Ran by the Wigan Warriors rugby league club, Central Park offered vocational training and further education programmes for 14-19-year-olds. The provision also offered extensive facilities to be used by the local community as well as new headquarters for the club, a sophisticated base for the Warriors' Community and Foundation operations and a Centre of Excellence for the highly reputed Wigan Warriors' Youth Development Programme. In 2023, Wigan Council began to demolish the site, with plans to use the site to create a new home for Hope School, a SEND school currently based in Kelvin Grove, Wigan.

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Kitt Green

Kitt Green is a suburb of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. It is the location of a Heinz food processing plant.

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Dean Trust Wigan

Dean Trust Wigan, formerly Abraham Guest Academy and Abraham Guest High School, is a coeducational secondary school with academy status located in the Orrell area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester.The school has been shortlisted as Wigan and Leigh Secondary school of the year for 2021. It is part of The Dean Trust.

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Pemberton, Greater Manchester

Pemberton is an area of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the southwestern bank of the River Douglas, and east of the M6 motorway. The area is contiguous with Orrell and as a ward has a population of 13,638, increasing to 13,982 at the 2011 Census. Historically a part of Lancashire, Pemberton was formerly a township and parish in the hundred of West Derby. Following the Industrial Revolution, Pemberton became a densely populated industrial district comprising a variety of coal mines, stone-quarries, brick manufactories, and cotton mills. Coal mining was the principal industry of what was described in 1911 as an "unpicturesque, bare and open" area. The former Pemberton Urban District, along with Wigan Municipal Borough merged to form the County Borough of Wigan in 1904.

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St John the Divine's Church, Pemberton

St John the Divine's Church is in Church Street, Lamberhead Green, Pemberton, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wigan, the archdeaconry of Warrington, and the diocese of Liverpool. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. It was a Commissioners' church, having received a grant towards its construction from the Church Building Commission.

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