route

With numerous detours for photographs.

19 century map

1. Mayfield House

The home of JS Hardman, historian of Sion Baptist chapel

2. Cross cottage

3. 404 Newchurch Rd

4. tomb behind Patrick Crescent

shown on the 1849 OS map

grave Patrick Cres

picture courtesy Chris Lord/RHDA

5. Red Lion

6. Plantation Barn

Built on the former site of the Rossendale Sheet Metal Company

7. Plantation House

Once owned by Patrick and let to Sion for a manse

8. Rectory

St John's rectory

Rectory

1928

9. The Warren

Home of the 38th Rossendale (open) Scout Group founded in 1951. This building dates from 2006.

10. Greenhill terrace

Dobbin Lane

11. garden, Greenhill terrace

Greenhill

1968

Greenhill

1978

Dobbin Lane

1968

Peel St

1914

12. St John's, Cloughfold

Founded in 1886, the cornerstone is dated 27 April 1889 and the church consecrated Newchurch and St Mary's Rawtenstall. It closed in 1976. The stained glass windows are said to be by William Morris and now in Vancouver Christ Church Catherdral.

13. St John's Cloughfold

Side entrance

St John's

14. Rossendale Union Gas Works

Bacup Road, Cloughfold. The Rossendale Union Gas Co was formed in 1854 from merger of the Bacup Gas and Coke Co (whose works were at Cloughfold) and Rossendale Gas Co. The land was rented from Patrick. Dobbin Court now stands on the site and the stone is preserved.

15. Cloughfold school

Amalgamated with Waterfoot CP school in 2007 and now an annex of Belmont school.

16. Cloughfold railway station

Built in 1870 and opened to passengers Jan 1871 and rebuilt in 1879 to accommodate two lines of track with an island platform. At its peak it served 30 services per day. It closed on 5 Dec 1966, although a small private siding remained operative for some time afterwards.

Cloughfold station

Cloughfold station

1966

railway Cloughfold

station site

building of Woodfield Engineering 1979

17. Kenyon's

18. Victoria mill

Once Smith and Nephew.

Victoria mill

19. gas cylinder

Fallbarn. A second cylinder stood on the site of Dobbin Court - photo 14 above.

gas cylinder

1973

Cloughfold

1973

Cloughfold

Cloughfold

20. Waterside

The area now known as 'Cloughfold' was once known as 'Waterside'. 'Cloughfold' is now 'Higher Cloughfold", with the change occurring gradually in the first quarter of the 20th century.

21. North St Chapel

Wesleyan Methodist, opened 1868

22. Cloughfold Conservative club

23. Union Mill Hareholme

Site of the Rossendale Cotton Manufacturing Co Ltd, (Mannex NE Lancs directory, 1875)

24. Hareholme Lane

25. Hareholme Lane

from Hareholme, looking up to the right of the houses in the above picture.

Hareholme Lane

1973

Hareholme

26. Electricity works

27. Electricity works

1908

28. Irwell

looking north at Hareholme

29. Irwell

looking south at Hareholme

30. Hareholme bridge

31. back Electricity works

32. bridge

behind the electricity works, Hareholme

33. railway trackbed

looking from Hareholme to Cloughfold

34. railway trackbed

looking from Hareholme to Waterfoot

35. Hareholme chapel

Primitive Methodist, in use 1873-1982. The congregation began meeting 1866.

36. site of smallpox hospital

latterly a ward of Rossendale General, demolished c1950.

fever hospital

fever hospital

37. towards Cloughfold

from the road to Hurdles

38. towards Warth

from the road to Hurdles

39. railway trackbed

from Warth towards Hareholme

40. railway trackbed

from Warth towards Waterfoot

41. Myrtle Grove Mill

Lench Road

42. detail, Myrtle Grove Mill

Lench Road

43. Irwell

looking north at Warth

44. Irwell

looking south at Warth

45. Staghills Lodge south

One of a number of 'great house' lodges in Rossendale which have survived after the demolition of the house they served. The north lodge was demolished when building Staghills estate. Staghills House was built for Richard Ashworth (of Cowpe Mill) and demolished in the 1950s when the Staghills estate was built.

46. Staghills Lodge

47. Staghills woods

The southern part of the old Staghills estate survives as woodland

Staghills House

48. 'Narnia' lamp

Actually illuminating the footpath from Hareholme lane to Staghills, this lamp appears to be in the middle of the forest...

49. Brow Edge

Staghills

50. Staghills Road

51. Newchurch Rd

From Staghills road, looking towards Newchurch

52. Newchurch Road

From Staghills road, looking towards Newchurch

53. Lea Bank lodge

Lea Bank house does survive

54. Lea Bank gates

55. Lea Bank

Once the residence of …, latterly a secondary modern school, now converted into a number of executive dwellings

56. Cloughfold rec

57. Cloughfold rec

58. top of Hareholme Lane

59. towards Far Heightside

from Newchurch Road. Pipework from Patrick's water instillations to supply his properties in Cloughfold run through this field.

60. Johnny Barn farm

61. datestone, Johnny Barn farm

Edmund Ashworth 1916

62. Johnny Barn cottages

Built on the site of the old abbatoir. A datestone 'J B 1704' is in the gable end of no. 1

Johnny Barn abbatoir

Tim Nuttall recalls passing the abbatoir during its demolition and noticing a cast iron gateway inside with the inscription, probably the trade name of the construction, at the top: ‘The Shadowless Hall’. He also reminded me of the bull escaping down Newchurch Road until it was finally despatched/recaptured near the market about half a mile away.

63. Newchurch Rd

64. Litchford House

Site of Sion Baptist chapel and built from stone from the old chapel building. Now sheltered housing