5 and a half mile Walk around,
Brindle, Higher Wheelton,
Hough Hill and Denham Quarry

February 2023




Brindle Village, the start and end of the walk


Heading towards Hiltons Farm


Track leading towards The Leeds - Liverpool Canal


A sign that Spring is on it's way as the Snow Drops cover the ground in the woods
Liverpool that way, Leeds behind me



Climbing up through Withnell Fold


Withnell Fold Reservoir (Not drinking water, this served the Mill lower down by the canal)


Heading back down to the canal


The canal runs left to right along the ridge at the top of the photo


A placque marking the site of the Brindle Workhouse. It reads:

Brindle Workhouse, operated on this site from 1734 – 1871


Originally taken over from a Catholic Mass House, The workhouse buildings were expanded and rebuilt, housing over 200 paupers and lunatics until 1816. It was notorious for its severity and poor conditions even among workhouses, and took paupers from over 80 Townships across Lancashire. Around 1842 it was absorbed into the Chorley Poor Law Union and effectively became the towns main workhouse until its closure in 1871 with the building of the new workhouse on Eaves Lane.


Among the thousands of paupers who must have passed through its doors were:


W. Warner of Biston                Alexander Fowler                John Heywood                                           
Kitty Parker                             George Blackstone             Jervis Hewson

James Waburton                     Alice Bennison                Timothy Cross


Each was a person with their own story

For most of them, this is their only memorial




This gate markes the entrance to waht was the Workhouse, the plaque is on the wall to the left


Hough Hill Sumitt, above Denham Quarry


Looking along the quarry rock face from the top


And from the bottom


Back to Brindle village

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February 19th 2023