Wingates is a small settlement located in the town of Westhoughton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.

[3] John Wesley, the co-founder of the Methodist church, preached a sermon at Barnaby's Farm at Wingates in April 1784, an occasion commemorated by a memorial plaque on the side of the A6.

The vicar was Rev William Macrorie, the future Bishop of Maritzburg in the Colony of Natal (later South Africa).

The well-known Christian hymn, "Angel Voices, Ever Singing", was written by the hymnwriter Francis Pott to commemorate the dedication of the new organ in 1861 at St John's.

[4][5] The churchyard contains many graves of the victims of the 1910 Pretoria Pit Disaster[6] From Wingates the A6 leads north-west to Blackrod and south-east to Walkden.