Flixton is a village in the borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, with a population of around 10,786 people. Flixton lies around 6 miles from nearby Manchester city centre, with Flixton village and local neighbourhood Davyhulme both being considered as part of Urmston.
Medieval Flixton was a parish which was made up of isolated farmsteads and a manor house. It was only during the 17th century that the population began to rise. Flixton’s connection to the railway network in 1873 helped transform the area into a middle-class suburb.
Average local house prices in Flixton at the time of writing were £278,548, up 2% on the previous year. The majority of sales in Flixton during the last year were semi-detached properties, selling for an average price of £285,229. Terraced properties sold for an average of £240,659, with detached properties selling for around £405,810.
Evidence suggests that some areas in the parish were used for textile production, while other areas were engaged in agricultural activity. Flixton also played an important part in the early campaigns for public rights of way, with the local community protesting against the local squire who tried to close a footpath which ran through his land. The subsequent Peak and Norther Footpath Society still exists today.
The name Flixton is likely to be Scandinavian in origin, with the the Anglo-Saxon ‘ton’ meaning a farmstead.
The village is served by two local railway stations, Flixton and Chassen Road, while a nearby local nature reserve and angling pond draws in visitors from more suburban parts of Wigan and Manchester.
Most of the town’s population lives to the north, the south being mainly open land
Local Authority: https://www.wigan.gov.uk