Platt Bridge & Bickershaw Lane 1906

Godfrey Map Number 94.13. Lancashire: Platt Bridge & Bickershaw Lane 1906. This map fits below Hindley map (Code 3904) and to the right of Ince Moss map (Code 3394) in the Wigan area. Mainly collieries served by industrial railways. Includes: small ponds or ‘Flashes’ formed by mining subsidence; with the community of Platt Bridge to the left of the map. Leyland Park to the north was paid for by Nathaniel Eckersley as a memorial to local benefactor & historian John Leyland in 1887.