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'''Standish''' is a large villagetown<ref>https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/standish-wigan</ref> in the [[Metropolitan Borough of Wigan]], [[Greater Manchester]], England.<ref name="GM Gazetteer">{{cite web |url=http://www.gmcro.co.uk/Guides/Gazeteer/gazzs.htm |title=Greater Manchester Gazetteer|publisher=Greater Manchester County Record Office|accessdate=17 June 2008|at=Places names – S|archivedate=18 July 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718144349/http://www.gmcro.co.uk/Guides/Gazeteer/gazzs.htm}}</ref> [[Historic counties of England|Historically]] in Lancashire, it is on the [[A49 road]] between [[Chorley]] and [[Wigan]], near Junction 27 of the [[M6 motorway]]. The population of the village was 13,278 in the [[United Kingdom census, 2011|2011 census]].<ref name=Census_2011/>
[[File:St Wilfrids Church, Standish.jpg|thumb|280px|The parish church of St Wilfrid's in the centre of Standish]]
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