  * Higher End and Winstanley (west of the M6) are in the Orrell ward. (see ONS/wards/orrell). It is recommended that, from April, 2007, Orrell 'ward' will be part of the Makerfield constituency along with  Abram, Ashton in Makerfield, Bryn, Hindley, Hindley Green, Winstanley, and Worsley Mesnes. A 'Constituency' is very much part of 'local government', seeing as a 'constituency' is made up of local council 'wards'. The 'constituents', from these wards, elect the MP for the 'constituency.  Neighbourhoods of the 'Metropolitan Borough of Wigan' do, as you say, 'exist'. They have 'existed' for a long time. But an article on 'Billinge and Winstanley' (which, as we both know, are two separate places) is not the place to list the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan's other neighbourhoods.  Billinge is a 'civil parish'. Winstanley is a 'civil parish'. Wigan is an 'Ecclesiastical Parish', which is a 'church thing', and is in the 'diocese of Liverpool', another 'church thing'. Billinge and Winstanley 'civil parishes' are in Wigan 'Ecclesiastical Parish'.  Billinge was an urban district of Lancashire, not an urban district of Wigan!  Wigan Council, indeed, any council, will put what suits 'them' on a their own website.  I know these things because I read written, archived, historical, factual information, not opinion posted on the internet sites. Councils come and go, Billinge Hill will still be there in another thousand years.