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Wigan is a market town in Lancashire, England, approximately sixteen miles north-west of Manchester city centre and approximately sixteen miles north-east of Liverpool city centre.
Wigan North Western railway station is on the West Coast Main Line. Local services to Manchester use Wigan Wallgate railway station. Wigan Pier is situated close to the town centre on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
Wigan Athletic Football Club (soccer) and Wigan Warriors rugby league club share the DW Stadium.
The population of Wigan is 107,732, as of the 2011 UK Census.
It is referred to in the title of George Orwell's 1930s polemic on Lancashire working class life, 'The Road To Wigan Pier'.