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Category Archives: Lancashire

Home / Archive Category: Lancashire

Anglezarke

Sep 14, 2020Daisy GraceSettlements in Lancashire

A sparsely populated civil parish near Chorley in Lancashire with no village, just scattered farms and the hamlet of White Coppice.

Rivington Unitarian Chapel

Sep 10, 2020Daisy GraceLancashire, Religious buildings

An active place of Unitarian worship in Rivington, Lancashire whose congregation dates from 1662 but the stone not built until 1703.

Rivington Church

Sep 7, 2020Daisy GraceLancashire, Religious buildings

An active Anglican parish church and Grade II listed building in Rivington, Lancashire

Turton Tower

Jul 29, 2020Daisy GraceLancashire, Mansions, stately homes & manor houses

A former manor house incorporating a pele tower in Turton, Lancashire.

Rivington

Jul 7, 2020Daisy GraceSettlements in LancashireCompletely different

Rivington is a village in the Borough of Chorley, to the northwest of Bolton on the fringe of the West Pennine Moors.

Ellesmere Colliery

Jan 16, 2020Daisy GraceCoal mining, Greater Manchester, Lancashire

Ellesmere Colliery in Walkden, on the Lancashire Coalfield, was sunk in 1865 by the Bridgewater Trustees. Production ended in 1923.

Rivington Pike

Jan 2, 2020Daisy GraceLancashire, Landforms

A hill summit on Winter Hill, part of the West Pennine Moors, overlooking the village of Rivington in Lancashire, England.

Winter Hill

Jan 1, 2020Daisy GraceGreater Manchester, Lancashire, Landforms

The high point of Rivington Moor in the West Pennine Moors is 1,496 feet high and has been the site of mining, a mass trespass, aeroplane disasters and murder.

Haigh Foundry

Nov 20, 2019Daisy GraceIndustrial organisations, Lancashire

An ironworks and foundry in Haigh near Wigan that was notable for the manufacture of steam engines.

Rivington Gardens

Nov 4, 2019Daisy GraceHorticulture & horticulturists, Lancashire

Rivington Gardens cover about 45 acres of the steep west-facing slopes of Rivington Moor at the edge of the West Pennine Moors in Lancashire.

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