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• Welcome to the Standish Homepage

Welcome to our Standish Homepage website. Our website is the home on the internet for the township of Standish, in Lancashire, England. It is here both to promote Standish to the rest of the world, and also to provide a useful on-line resource to the residents of Standish.

The Standish Homepage has now been running for 8 years, and has had many thousands of visitors worldwide. Although the site has been quite quiet recently, we're hoping to add lots more to the site in the near future. We've been very busy re-writing the site, making it leaner, faster and more accessible. We've got some new features which we will be launching soon, but if you have any suggestions for improving our site further, please contact us.

• Standish?

Standish is a small township just north of Wigan, in the north-west of England, UK. It has a population of around 17,000, and has a long and interesting history dating back hundreds of years. Although Captain Myles Standish of the Mayflower did not originate in Standish, the history of his ancestors, the Standish family, Standish Hall and the village are intertwined.

Standish has also seen the industrial revolution bring mining and textiles to the area, although these are now gone again as the information revolution has replaced older industries with a wide variety of other jobs.

• The Standish Homepage

This site will also introduce you to Standish today, with our photo galleries, directories of local community organisations, local shops and services, pubs and clubs, hotels and guesthouses and restaurants, cafés and take-aways. We also have a calendar section listing local events and an internet links page, as well as much other Standish related information.

What is the Standish Millennium Triptych? See it on the Triptych page.

Our Latest Addition

Cambridge Diet Counsellor
in the Community page Sports, Fitness and Slimming section
on the Tuesday 24th April 2007

• The Messageboard

Got something you want to get off your chest? Want to discuss Standish online? Do you want to join in the fun? Our messageboard is the perfect place to chat and post online. We now have 180 registered members and 2953 articles in 358 topics. Our latest article was posted by Steve Bradburn in the "Councillor is set to catch lawbreakers" topic.

• Standish History

If you want to read more about the history of Standish, visit the Standish History website, at www.standish-history.org.uk. The site aims to fill in the missing gaps in the History section of this website. We hope that this new site will become a comprehensive and entertaining archive of the history of the township. Visit the new site today!

• More?

We are always looking for more content for the site. This is where you can help us. Whether it's just a Guestbook entry to say "Hello", a message you would like to send or a question you would like to ask, your local community club or groups looking for members, or anything Standish related you thing should be on the site, please contact us.