Brindle and Denham Quarry

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

February 19th 2023