Talk:Billinge and Winstanley Urban District

message: Local government section: Someone has inserted that " 'Billinge Higher End' and 'Winstanley' form part of the 'Orrell' ward in the 'Makerfield' constituency". In point of fact, there is no such thing as a 'constituency' in local government. Constituencies elect MPs to the Commons. Also, why has the stuff on townships and neighbourhoods in the Metropolitan B. of Wigan been deleted. I suggest you check the council's official website. They exist and they are here to stay. Yozzer66 22:32, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent Changes to the main article

message: much of this article is word for word identical with text at  and  Morwen - Talk 07:46, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Other Comments

message: I should be interested to know when this was a ward.  It isn't at present, and wasn't prior to the new ward boundaries coming into effect in 2004, according to the boundary committee's report on the re-warding.  These boundaries dated from 1979...  So this leaves the time period from 1973 to 1979 - in 1973 temporary ward boundaries were used, based on existing wards: is quite possible that Billinge and Winstanley constituted a ward then.  Not sure where to get this info from, since there was no census in this timeframe.  Morwen - Talk 10:11, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wardness

message: These are two seperate places completely. Winstanley is in Wigan too, it borders on Goose Green, if you walk up highfield grange, the border is is somewhere between Clapgate Lane and Melrose Drive (you can't see it though, it's invisible). People who shop at Winstanley shops and also have a pint in 'the Poacher' consider themselves as part of Wigan town not Wigan Borough as this article describes and they certainly do not consider themselves as living in 'Billinge-and-Winstanly'
82.33.171.111 15:09, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK.  Well before we organise a split, if that is needed, we need to confirm what is what.  This is what I understand:  Billinge was split in 1974 into two areas: Higher End in the Met Borough of Wigan and Billinge village in the Met Borough of St Helens.  There is already a main Billinge, Merseyside article, so do we need one for Higher End and one for Winstanley?  I have marked the page with a split tag so please do not edit it until we have sorted this out.  We can then create the new stub articles and correct redirects as necessary. Regan123 21:25, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

text: I find the notion utterly ridiculous that while walking up Highfield Grange upon passing Sturton Ave, I actually leave Wigan. That's just not right. 
82.33.171.111 23:50, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Alright, lets start with what is / was Billinge-and-Winstanley.  An area, parish, civil parish? Regan123 21:25, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

text: OK.  If everyone will hang on today, I will effect a split of the articles to reflect the comments and links above.  If anyone objects I won't proceed. Regan123 13:32, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Billinge-and-Winstanley does not exist

message: THERE'S NO SUCH PLACE AS 'HIGHER END'.  IT'S ALL BILLINGE.  YOU REFER TO 'BILLINGE HIGHER END' (the higher end of Billinge) AND PART OF IT IS IN ST.HELENS.
YOU THINK YOU ARE CLEVER, BUT YOU'RE A KNOW-NOWT.
ARTICLES SHOULD BE ABOUT PLACES, NOT COUNCIL WARDS.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.34.33.12 (talk) 00:31, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split 

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