Westhoughton is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, 4 miles southwest of Bolton, 5 miles east of Wigan and 13 miles northwest of Manchester.
Westhoughton Town Hall, built 1903
Farmer cutting off the cow's head – picture in the Waggon and Horses pub
The original Pretoria Pit Memorial in Westhoughton Cemetery
The Hulton Colliery Company was a coal mining company operating on the Lancashire Coalfield from the mid 19th century in Over Hulton and Westhoughton, then in the historic county of Lancashire, Englan