Mosley Common is a suburb of Tyldesley at the far-eastern edge of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.

Deep mining arrived in the area when Mosley Common Colliery owned by the Bridgewater Trustees was sunk in the 1860s.

[7][8] Today Astley and Mosley Common form an electoral ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan.

The ward elects three councillors to the 75-member metropolitan borough council, Wigan's local authority.

[9] Following a review of parliamentary representation in Greater Manchester, the Boundary Commission recommended that Mosley Common should be part of the Worsley and Eccles constituency at the next general election.

[12] In 1885 the Countess of Ellesmere laid the foundation stone for St John the Evangelist Church, it cost £4,250.