Lowton

Lowton
Village
St Mary's Parish Church, Lowton
Lowton Location within Greater Manchester
Population	14,605 (2011)[1][2]
OS grid reference	SJ622973
Metropolitan borough	Wigan
Metropolitan county	Greater Manchester
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WARRINGTON
Postcode district	WA3
Dialling code	01942 01925
Police	Greater Manchester
Fire	Greater Manchester
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Leigh
List of places UK England Greater Manchester 53°28′16″N 2°34′08″W / 53.471°N 2.569°W / 53.471; -2.569

Lowton is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. It is around 2 miles (3 km) from Leigh, 7 miles (11 km) south of Wigan and 12 miles (19 km) west of Manchester city centre. The settlement lies across the A580 East Lancashire Road.

Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, Lowton's history is closely connected with Byrom Manor, the ancestral home of the Byroms, a family which included poet John Byrom, the inventor of a system of shorthand. During the Industrial Revolution Lowton was associated with coal mining and manufacturing: it was close to several collieries and factories.

At the 2011 census, the population of Lowton was split between two wards: Lowton East, and Golborne and Lowton West. The latter partially counted the entire population of Golborne, and partially the population of Lowton's western half, with the boundary between them roughly being at Scott Road to the north and Windsor Road to the south.^[1][2]