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This two bedroom property comprises a comfy living area with gas central heating.

The kitchen comprises plenty work surfaces, drawers and cupboards to prepare and store your weekly shop.

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Leigh once had separate boys` and girls` grammar schools, which were abolished by the then Secretary of State for Education, Shirley Williams, in the 1976 Education Act. Notable past pupils included Pete Shelley and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Bedford High School, which now has specialist Business and Enterprise College status, was founded in that year by merging Leigh Grammar School for Boys with the neighbouring co-educational Bedford Secondary Modern School. Plans to demolish the former Leigh Grammar School for Girls, now a primary school, were passed in July 2008.

Canals
The Bridgewater Canal was extended from Worsley to the middle of Leigh in 1795, and in 1819 the Leigh branch canal was cut from the Leeds-Liverpool Canal at Poolstock, Wigan to meet the Bridgewater at Leigh Bridge, giving access from Leigh to all parts of Lancashire, Yorkshire and the Midlands.

Railways

Leigh bus stationLeigh was the southern terminus of the 7.5 miles (12 km) long Bolton and Leigh Railway. George Stephenson carried out the survey for the line. It opened for freight on 1 August 1828 and for passengers on 13 June 1831. The first locomotive on the line was an 0-4-0 called The Lancashire Witch. The town station was at West Leigh. Later the line was extended southwards to Pennington. The line was closed to passenger traffic on 29 March 1954, and later closed completely.

The second railway to serve the town was a branch line from the Manchester - Eccles - Wigan line. It joined the earlier railway at Pennington: there was a station, originally named West Leigh and Bedford to serve the town. It was closed in May 1969, leaving the town without a passenger railway. Numerous freight-only lines crossed the town, but with the closure of the collieries these were no longer required.

Today the nearest railway station is at Atherton, 3 miles (5 km) miles to the north, leaving the large bus station as the town`s only public transport link. Services to Manchester (even by limited stop bus services) are painfully slow (up to an hour to Manchester), preventing Leigh becoming a commuter town: a guided bus way has been suggested as a solution.



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