Garswood
Sign in to saveGarswood is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of St. Helens, Merseyside, England. The village is within the civil parish of Seneley Green. The parish was part of Ashton-in-Makerfield until the 1974 boundary changes.
Weather now
cached 1539h ago7-day forecast
via Open-Meteo
Place details
- Locality
- Wigan
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 6,183
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 6183
- Image
- The Railway pub, Garswood.JPG
- Dialing code
- 01744
Show 3 more facts
- postal code
- WN4
- OS grid reference
- SJ556993
- Commons category
- Garswood
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Education
- Governance
- Sport
- Transport
- See also
- References
- External links
Garswood is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of St. Helens, Merseyside, England. The village is within the civil parish of Seneley Green. The parish was part of Ashton-in-Makerfield until the 1974 boundary changes.
==History== In the historic county of Lancashire, Garswood is from Old English gyr “fir” and wudu "wood", the fir wood. The name was recorded as Gratiswode (undated).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Garswood” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations