Some ten miles south-east of Wigan, Tyldesley grew to prominence, like many of its neighbors, through coal and cotton.
Opposite the market is the old church known as Top Chapel, built in 1789 for the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection, a breakaway sect of the Church of England.
The earliest evidence of history in Tyldesley is the remains of the Roman road running through the area between the camps at Wigan and Manchester. In 1947 two urns containing about 600 Roman bronze coins, minted between AD 259 and AD 273 were found near the route of this ancient road.

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