AI automation across West Lancashire.
We work with businesses in all 74 towns and villages in the district.
Towns in West Lancashire
Skelmersdale
Population 38,813
Distribution and manufacturing town: Co-operative Bank (around 650 staff), Asda, P&G and Victorian Plumbing depots, a Walkers fact...
Ormskirk
Population 24,073
Edge Hill University (13,330 students) plus a town-centre economy of solicitors, estate agents and accountants, and a historic mar...
Burscough
Population 9,935
Leeds and Liverpool Canal town with the Burscough Wharf retail and leisure development of around thirty units, on the A59 trunk ro...
Aughton
Population 8,034
Fine-dining destination with three restaurants holding five Michelin stars between them as of 2025
Up Holland
Population 7,376
Contains the Pimbo industrial estate; formerly a colliery village on high ground above the coastal plain
Tarleton
Population 5,959
Market gardening on reclaimed mossland, especially salad crops grown under glass
Villages and smaller places we also cover
These are served from the same team on the same terms. They are listed here rather than given a page each, because a page that only restates the district page helps nobody.
Banks
Commuter village for Southport, Liverpool and Preston, with flower and vegetable farming and birdwatching on B...
Hesketh Bank
Rich coastal-plain soil supports flower and vegetable farming as the main economic activity; brickmaking has d...
North Meols
Parish covering Banks and Hundred End; flower and vegetable farming on land enriched by the 19th-century drain...
Scarisbrick
Strung along the A570 between Ormskirk and Southport, served by Bescar Lane station on the Manchester to South...
Wrightington
Wrightington Hospital in the former Wrightington Hall, plus Ainscough Crane Hire, the UK's largest crane hire...
Parbold
Commuter village on the Manchester line; formerly coal mining, sandstone quarrying and canal boatbuilding
Rufford
Little or no industry; grade one farmland plus tourism from National Trust Rufford Old Hall, Mere Sands Wood a...
Halsall
Sparse rural farming parish where the first sod of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal was cut in 1770, marked by th...
Bickerstaffe
United Utilities operates a major water treatment works here, expanded from 2012; Bickerstaffe Colliery closed...
Newburgh
Rural service village with the Red Lion Hotel, post office, village shop and tearoom
Lathom
Pilkington, part of Nippon Sheet Glass, runs its European Technical Centre here; also the site of the twice-be...
Downholland
Parish covering Haskayne, Barton and Downholland Cross, on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, with the Farmer Ted'...
Westhead
A577 village with the Ofsted-outstanding Westhead Lathom St James primary school and a carnival running since...
Lathom South
Agricultural parish of wheat fields and hamlets between Ormskirk and Skelmersdale
Hilldale
Quarrying from the 1880s to the 1970s was the main employer; the former Hunters Hill Quarry is now a countrysi...
Roby Mill
Village with a Church of England primary school and bus links to Wrightington Hospital
Dalton
Dominated by Ashurst Hill and Ashurst's Beacon, part of the Anglo-Spanish War signal relay
Bispham
Around 1,000 acres of grade 2 farmland with no industrial buildings and no planned major development
Great Altcar
Intensively farmed mossland cut by drainage dykes; hosted the Waterloo Cup from 1836 to 2005 and adjoins Altca...
Simonswood
Sparsely populated parish containing the Grade II* listed Simonswood Hall
Andertons Mill
Appley Bridge
Former paint and linoleum works, quarries and brick clay pits; now a weighbridge manufacturer and a caravan fa...
Ashurst
Skelmersdale ward beneath Ashurst Beacon, with the Ashurst Shopping Centre and the Larkhill, Leeswood, Ledburn...
Aughton Park
Barrison Green
Scarisbrick hamlet formed from early farms, one of the parish's dispersed settlements with no village centre
Barrow Nook
Stone quarried here built Bickerstaffe church and school in the early 1840s
Barton
Small coastal-plain village four miles west of Ormskirk that had its own railway station from 1887 to 1952
Becconsall
Paired with Hesketh Bank in the Hesketh-with-Becconsall civil parish
Bescar
Bescar Lane railway station serves the Scarisbrick area
Birch Green
Skelmersdale ward and new-town neighbourhood adjoining the Concourse town centre
Bispham Green
Once known for osier (willow) growing for basket weaving, reverted entirely to arable and pastoral farming sin...
Blaguegate
Broadhurst
Wrightington locality named in the parish's historic land divisions
Burscough Bridge
Canal and rail interchange part of Burscough, on the Manchester to Southport line
Carr Cross
Scarisbrick hamlet named for its crossroads, on the Ormskirk to Southport corridor
Clieves Hills
Hamlet about a mile and a half north-west of Town Green on one of the few areas of high ground in the borough
Crawford
Digmoor
One of the seven Skelmersdale wards, a 1960s new-town neighbourhood built around Digmoor Parade district centr...
Downholland Cross
Village cross reinstated by the parish council to mark the millennium
Drummersdale
Scarisbrick moss-farming hamlet on the flat reclaimed land north of the A570
Fairhurst
Historic Wrightington township locality, one of the parish's named divisions
Far Banks
Rural locality of the North Meols area beyond Banks village on the Ribble estuary marshland
Harrock
Wrightington locality on Harrock Hill, the parish's highest ground at over 400 feet, with the ruined Harrock H...
Haskayne
Coastal-plain village within Downholland parish
High Moor
Wrightington hamlet on the hilly ground near Harrock, known for its country dining
Holmes
Huntapac, a vegetable grower supplying supermarkets, is the main business in the area
Holmeswood
Vegetable growing, with some grain, is the economic mainstay of the village
Holt Green
South-western part of Aughton civil parish, a rural residential pocket between Aughton village and the moss fa...
Hoscar
Hundred End
Coastal hamlet with enclosed salt marsh grazed by cattle, once served by the West Lancashire Railway to market
Hurlston
One of the original Scarisbrick farm hamlets, distinct from the larger Hurlston Green to its west
Hurlston Green
Martin Mere
Locality in Burscough parish, site of the WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre, the borough's largest visitor attrac...
Mere Brow
Flower and vegetable farms alongside a leisure cluster of golf course, caravan park, equestrian centre and wat...
Moorside
Skelmersdale ward on the southern side of the town, one of the seven wards the new town was divided into
Mossy Lea
Main residential settlement of Wrightington parish, containing much of the parish's housing
New Lane
Burscough parish hamlet with its own request-stop railway station on the Southport to Manchester line
Pimbo
Locality in Up Holland parish, dominated by the Pimbo industrial estate serving Skelmersdale
Pinfold
Scarth Hill
Shirdley Hill
Gave its name to Shirdley Hill Sand, used industrially and particularly in glassmaking
Snape Green
Scarisbrick hamlet on the Southport side of the parish, one of the settlements formed from early farms
Sollom
Farming hamlet in Tarleton parish on excellent soil, with an Aldi store and office units opened from 2022
Tanhouse
Skelmersdale new-town ward and neighbourhood on the eastern side of the town
Tarlscough
Home of the WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre, an SSSI, Special Protection Area and Ramsar site
Town Green
South-eastern part of Aughton parish and an Ormskirk commuter suburb, with Town Green station on Merseyrail's...
Tunley
Wrightington hamlet on the higher ground above the River Douglas
Wrightington Bar
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