Local authority · 00BW
Wigan
No longer in useWigan was a local authority, published in boundary releases from December 2008 to December 2009.
The December 2009 boundary, generalised to about 100 m.
- Code
- 00BW
- Kind
- Local authority
- Area
- 188 km²
- In use
- 2008 to 2009
Where it sits
Neighbours
6 local authorities share a border with Wigan, longest border first.
- Bolton 22.3 km
- St. Helens 19.4 km
- Salford 14.1 km
- West Lancashire 12.7 km
- Warrington 10.3 km
- Chorley 6.0 km
Data published for it
None of the Atlas's datasets publish figures for Wigan under this code.
Ask the API
Everything on this page comes from the UK Data Atlas API's geography resolver. These requests return it, for the December 2009 release.
- The areaDocs
GET/v1/areas/localAuthority/2009-12-gb-bgc/00BW - Its boundaryDocs
GET/v1/areas/localAuthority/2009-12-gb-bgc/00BW/geometry?tier=medium - Its historyDocs
GET/v1/areas/localAuthority/2009-12-gb-bgc/00BW/history - What it sits withinDocs
GET/v1/areas/localAuthority/2009-12-gb-bgc/00BW/parents - What it containsDocs
GET/v1/areas/localAuthority/2009-12-gb-bgc/00BW/children - Its neighboursDocs
GET/v1/areas/localAuthority/2009-12-gb-bgc/00BW/neighbours - What you can ask about itDocs
GET/v1/areas/localAuthority/2009-12-gb-bgc/00BW?include=capabilities