Wigan, England is a city in Greater Manchester, sitting between Liverpool to the southwest and Manchester to the southeast. Wigan is famous for being a coal mining district and it was a major mill town. Wigan is most famous for the Wigan Pier, which George Orwell used for the title of one of his books, The Road to Wigan Pier. In Voyage in the Dark, the narrator is born in Africa to an English family and eventually moves back to England because the narrator had never lived where his heritage resided. Wigan is one of the cities that the narrator mentions that he traveled to but is unimpressed because the narrator thinks everywhere in England looks the same, grey, bland, and boring.