Do you live in or have ever been to Tyldesley? If so, do you class it as more Manchester or Wigan?

This might sound like a strange question to you but it is the exact debate users of the social media site Reddit have been thrashing out recently. Earlier this month, Reddit user Confident_Battle_415 posed the question on the r/Manchester subreddit asking - "Is Tyldesley classed as Manchester or Wigan?"

Of course, a quick google search would confirm Tyldesley is a market town in Metropolitan Borough of Wigan. So not Manchester but certainly Greater Manchester.

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Giving context for the question, the Redditor posted: "This is a question that I’ve always wanted to know. I used to live in a town called Tyldesley and wanted to know if people class it as more Wigan or Manchester?

Adding: "I haven’t lived there for about 10 years now but one of my old friends and I were talking about it recently and the question got brought up again. Of course, it’s a Manchester postcode, but the dialling code is Wigan - so........

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