Talk:Appley Bridge

message: I must re itereate here that shevington vale is not and never has been a village . It does not fit the formal dictionary definition of a village either phyically or historically. It is basically a housing estate built in the 60's/70's with a school and a row of shops.
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Not so, whilst Shevington Vale is not on the 1894-95 OS maps it's clearly marked on the 1908 1:10560 maps - well before any 1960s-70s housing.
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This article get worse - "The garden centre "Golden Days" is located just outside the main village on 'Back Lane' near the junction for the M6 Motorway" - blatant advertising!
78.32.109.152 (talk) 22:59, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed that paragraph entirely - it made little sense.  Maps I have inspected show it as part of Lancashire: although naturally the border with Shevington is unclear, it appears only a sliver would be in Greater Manchester.  I welcome any sources on the subject.  Morwen - Talk 14:29, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I have sympathy for people wanting to see Appley Bridge as separate from Wigan.  A postal address can be a poor guide, since they are often devised for the convenience of sorting/delivering letters, which for example led to places clearly not normally considered part of Liverpool having L post codes at one time.  The part of Appley Bridge with the bridge is in Lancs isn't it?  I'd see the bridge as a focal point of Appley Bridge.    — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gomez2002 (talk • contribs) 15:29, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

message: It seems safe to assume that the Skull House gave its name to Skull House Lane. The lane has had that name since at least the middle of the nineteenth century (it was mentioned in the 1851 census). However, the story given about the origins of the name Skull House seems to be, at the least, confused, and probably apocryphal. The assertion that ‘The story goes’ about the monk in the Civil War, although very colourful, is based on a major confusion between Oliver Cromwell and the man who was responsible for the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell. There were no monasteries left in England at the time of the Civil War, and had not been for over a hundred years. Although it maybe that this story is told by some people in Appley Bridge, it is not one that I have heard before. Unless there is some supporting evidence of which I am unaware, the first paragraph is not what would be expected in an encyclopedia.
Either the paragraph remains with an explanation that it is another example of unreliable ‘popular history’, or it should be reduced to an acknowledgement that the house contains an ancient human skull of unknown date and unknown provenance.Beverslie (talk) 00:47, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skull House and Skull House Lane 

message: What is the justification for the term 'affluent village', it seems strange to me that the village could be described as being primarily marked out as affluent.  The private housing estates consist mainly of unspectacular middle class housing.  Gomez2002 (talk) 15:17, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relative Affluence of Appley Bridge 

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