Golborne
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 29 ′ N , 2 ° 36 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 23,119 (as of 2001) ( 2001 census ) | ||
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| Post town | WARRINGTON | ||
| ZIP code section | WA3 | ||
| Primaries | 01925 01942 |
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| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | North West England | ||
| Metropolitan county | Greater Manchester | ||
| Metropolitan Borough | Wigan | ||
| British Parliament | Leigh | ||
Golborne (go: [l] bə: n) is a city in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan , in Greater Manchester , England. The city historically belongs to the county of Lancashire.
location
Golborne is 9 km south-southeast of Wigan , 10 km northeast of Warrington and 22 km west of Manchester .
Surname
The name Golborne comes from the Old English words golde and burna and means "creek where marsh marigolds grow". In early documents Golborne was spelled differently: 1187 Goldeburn, 1201 Goldburc, 1212 Goseburn and Goldburn, or 1242 Golburne. Golborne and Gowborne were the 16th century spellings.
history
Beda Venerabilis wrote in Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum of a consecrated well near Golborne.
Population development
| Population growth in Golborne since 1901 | ||||||||
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| year | 1901 | 1911 | 1921 | 1931 | 1939 | 1951 | 1961 | 2001 |
| population | 6,789 | 6,931 | 7,183 | 7,321 | 13,845 | 16,878 | 21,310 | 20.007 |
Personalities
- Peter Kane (1918–1991), flyweight boxer
- Roger Hunt (* 1938), soccer player and part of the winning team of the 1966 World Cup
- Paul Hart (born 1953), football player
- Dynamite Kid (1958-2018), wrestler
- The British Bulldog (1962-2002), wrestler
Individual evidence
- ^ William Farrer, J. Brownbill: Golborne. In: A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4. British History Online, 1911, pp. 148-50 , accessed February 28, 2010 .
- ↑ Golborne. (No longer available online.) Wigan Council, archived from the original September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved June 21, 2007 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A Vision of Britain through Time
- ↑ Census 2001 Key Statistics - Urban area results by population size of urban area. In: ons.gov.uk. Office for National Statistics, July 22, 2004, accessed September 22, 2009 .
