Hindley Green is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan

Metropolitan Borough of Wigan

The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in North West England. It is named after its largest component town, Wigan and also includes the towns of Leigh, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Ince-in-Makerfield, and Hindley. The borough was formed in 1974 and is an...

 in Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...

, England. The village lies to the east of Hindley

Hindley

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 and is centred on the A577 Atherton Road

A roads in Zone 5 of the Great Britain numbering scheme

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 to its boundary with Leigh

Leigh, Greater Manchester

Leigh is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It is southeast of Wigan, and west of Manchester. Leigh is situated on low lying land to the north west of Chat Moss....

.

History

Since 1852 Hindley Green has had 14 coal pits and a railway station situated on Leigh Road.

Hindley Green was also the site of a Turner Brothers Asbestos

Turner & Newall

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 factory which opened in 1949. Asbestos caused many chronic industrial diseases leading to payouts for those affected.

Governance

Hindley Green forms one of the twenty-five wards of the metropolitan borough. Each ward returns three councillors to the seventy-five member Wigan Council. Councillors have a four year term of office, with elections held in three years out of four. Of the three ward councillors there is one Labour

Labour Party (UK)

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, one Community Action Party

Community Action Party

The Community Action Party is a minor political party in the United Kingdom, mostly active in Greater Manchester and Merseyside. It advocates free health care and education provision, a managed public transport infrastructure free to all at the point of use and a moratorium on the use of green belt...

, while the other is an independent. The council is controlled by the Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

 which enjoys a large majority.

The area forms part of the Wigan Division of the Greater Manchester Police

Greater Manchester Police

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. Hindley Green is one of five communities (the others being Abram

Abram, Greater Manchester

Abram is a village and electoral ward within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on flat land on the northeast bank of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, west of Leigh, southeast of Wigan, and west of Manchester...

, Ashton-in-Makerfield

Ashton-in-Makerfield

Ashton-in-Makerfield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester. It is situated south of Wigan, north-northwest of Warrington and west of the city of Manchester. In 2001 it had a population of 28,505....

, Bryn

Bryn

Bryn is a component ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It is part of the larger town of Ashton-in-Makerfield and is geographically indistinguishable from it. It forms a separate local council ward...

 and Hindley

Hindley, Greater Manchester

Hindley is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England. Lying three miles east of Wigan it covers an area of 1044 hectares. Historically a part of Lancashire, Hindley which includes Hindley Green borders the towns of Ince-in-Makerfield and Leigh within Wigan...

) served by the Hindley Neighbourhood Policing Team, based at Bamfurlong

Bamfurlong, Greater Manchester

Bamfurlong is a small residential village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester. It lies approximately 5 miles south of Wigan town centre and 2 miles to the north of Ashton-in-Makerfield. Bamfurlong has a population of around 2,500 people....

 Police Station.

Education

There are three primary schools in the area: Hindley Green Community Primary School, St John's Church of England Primary School and Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School.

Religious sites

Hindley Green has four churches:

• St.John the Evangelist Church of England
  Church of England
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  . The church was established in 1903, the area having previously formed part of the parish of Hindley.
• Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Hindley Green, founded in 1932.
• Hindley Green Methodist Church
  Methodist Church of Great Britain
  The Methodist Church of Great Britain is the largest Wesleyan Methodist body in the United Kingdom, with congregations across Great Britain . It is the United Kingdom's fourth largest Christian denomination, with around 300,000 members and 6,000 churches...
  
  , originally known as the Brunswick Chapel, was opened in 1855.
• Hindley Green Family Church which meets at the Bethel community centre.

Economy

In March 2011 Wigan granted permission to build the UK's first zero-energy business park. The £2.7 million scheme will create around 21000 sq ft (1,951 m²) of office space at Swan Lane, Hindley Green Industrial Estate. The tenants will not be required to pay gas, electric or water costs because of the zero carbon technologies used such as wind turbines and rainwater collection.