Researching

The Wigan Archives Service has well over 500,000 documents, photographs, maps and historic books in our collections.

• Wigan Borough's Archives
• Local Studies collections (external link) – catalogued on Wigan Council library system. Not all collections are on the database so contact us or consult the card indexes in Local Studies if you can't find something.

Some of our catalogues are also available online:

• Greater Manchester Past Finder (external link)
• The National Archives (external link) 

Throughout our collections, document reference codes are given. Please quote these codes if you have an enquiry concerning the collections or would like to view any of the records in the Archives Searchroom.

If you have any questions about any of the material found here, would like to view any records, or cannot find what you are looking for, please contact us.