Battle of Wigan Lane

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1641 Standish and the English Civil War	1651	1656 Edward Standish (Lord of the Manor 1656-1682)

• See also Standish and the Civil War

The battle of Wigan Lane, 1651, took place on the road between Wigan and Standish. Sir Thomas Tyldesley, to whom the monument on the battlefield is erected, was a son-in-law of Ralph Standish; and the officer who placed it there was a parishioner, one of the Rigbys of Burgh in Duxbury.^[1]

1. ↑ Eleanor Johnson, The Standish Family 1189-1920 (Published by the Standish Local History Group, 1972)