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Before 1750 Penwortham was This walk covers what is known locally as The walk begins at the Black Bull Inn, name ceased to be used. It is now named ‘Holly 5 Penwortham Hall Cottage’. The tithe map and schedule of 1838 relatively cut o from Preston ‘Lower Penwortham’ as it is mainly in the Finding Your Way Round 83 Pope Lane, Penwortham PR1 9BA (Now known as Penwortham Hall Gardens) valley created by the Ribble. The ward called states the farm was a small holding of just over 4 but originally named Penwortham Lodge). by the . Middleforth (where the middle ford was 1 acres. Penwortham Hall was built in 1800 by John situated) contained a small nuclear village The Black Bull Inn Horrocks, founder of the great Horrocks cotton The only means of crossing this dangerous The Black Bull Inn is clearly marked on the tithe around an area of common land called The walk is approxi- Continue to the corner of New Lane. manufacturing company in Preston. John tidal river was by ferryboat from the Old Ferry fr Middleforth Green: a remnant of the Green o map of Penwortham (1838), alongside a terrace Look to the left to see . . . mately 2 miles long m 11 Horrocks purchased over 21 acres of farmland in House Inn (now demolished) or by one of of cottages known as Brown’s Row, now replaced still exists and you will pass it on your walk. P and is on public r L Penwortham in order to build a home and estate e the fords. In 1750 the river was bridged and, e by a row of modern shops. The Ordnance Survey This part of Penwortham became more s y highways, or cycle/ t l away from the grime and smoke of Preston. John o a map of 1893 has the letters BH next to the Black populated and built-up from the 1840s, footpaths. There are n n 4 St. Leonard’s Church died at the tender age of 36. By that time he d Bull, showing the inn was a beer house, rather mainly due to the railway and its associated no steep hills. There R The rst St Leonard’s church was situated at the had built up his cotton empire, been made an oa than a public house, licensed to sell only beer workforce. are shops and two d development, so work began later, in the 1940s bottom of Marshall’s Brow on the site where alderman and an MP, and virtually ran the Preston but not wine or spirits. Beer was made on the excellent en- and 50s, which resulted in the Kingsfold housing Church Brook House now stands. It was iron Guild of 1802! He left Penwortham Hall & his Penwortham Cop Lane Station premises, and sold in the or out to the route. The Pear Tree estate. Like many small farms, King’s Fold Farm clad and known locally as ‘The Tin Tabernacle’. It business to his younger son John. In 1813 John houses and farms. Inn serves food. was uneconomic by this time and was bought by was also used as a school. The last service was Jr. married a Scottish girl and settled into the Hall, 10 the local authority, the house to be sold later to conducted in 1970. The new church foundation but his wife was homesick and the tragic loss of stone was laid in 1969. The metal cross on the So Major J.D. Cameron who renovated what was, by their rst baby at 4 months old took them back to d uth C oa then, a rather dilapidated dwelling. In the early exterior came from the old church. The land on o R 9 Glasgow in 1815. John Horrocks Sr. is buried close p ll i 18th century the house had been a meeting hall which the new church stands was purchased in L to the south wall of St. Mary’s Church, with his a H 1962 from a well-known Penwortham resident, n for Protestant dissenters. estranged wife and his baby grand-daughter. The e Golden Way Miss Whittam, who ran a riding school and livery on payment of a toll, access became easier. Middleforth 8 estate was purchased by William Marshall. Keep going east! yard o Marshall’s Brow. The advent of trams and railways and nally Green The hall is one of only a handful of listed e buildings in Penwortham township; it was listed another large bridge which opened in 1915 g n 6 7 a Grade II in 1966. It is now converted into  ats for r 3 saw Penwortham begin to develop into a L On this walk you will see the homes of the Daniel’s Farm G e

older residents of Penwortham.

suburb of Preston, but with its own character. y This pleasant traditional farmhouse was built in d 12 wealthiest of Penwortham residents in the 5 la

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Before the Great War Penwortham was a 4 d 1783 by Daniel Dewhurst, as the stone over the past, and those of the poorest. Despite the l R a very rural community. Its inhabitants d e o front door states and was known as Daniel’s Farm development of the 20th and 21st centuries o New Lan a subsisted on farming, shing the Ribble, and o d Now set o in an easterly direction past until some point in the 20th century when the there is still a lot of Penwortham’s fascinating Pope Lane W N on cottage industries such as linen and cotton The Shampan history in existence, if you know where to Restaurant 3 the row of shops until, just past the weaving, poultry keeping, cheese making and look! library you will  nd the next house. later, market gardening. 1 2 W E P S 2 King’s Fold Farm Paintings by John Ferguson King’s Fold Farm is a wonderful example of later Above: The Ferry on the River Ribble c1840 Below: Penwortham Old Bridge in 1840 The walk begins and ends at the Black If cycling with children please be 17th century vernacular domestic architecture. Harris Museum and Art Gallery Bull Inn, Pope Lane (PR1 9BA). There is a aware* that tra c on Leyland Road can be Documents show the farm existed as early as free car park behind the row of shops next 1463, though the house may have been rebuilt busy, but the remainder of the route is on Turn right into New Lane. A few yards to the inn. The bus route from Preston is quieter roads or cycle paths. several times. The farm had, by 1691, been in the Penwortham 3 (every 10 minutes). Alight Hollinghurst family for over 200 years, but by the down on the left is . . . Walk to the end of New Lane where it at ‘The Shampan’ restaurant, near the 1930s much of the land around the farm was joins Leyland Road. Turn left and keep Black Bull inn. bought by Preston Rural & District Council for going! On the left you will see . . . building houses. The war prevented immediate ,

66 Middleforth Green 88 The Methodist Chapel crew were needed in the recent  oods around had given up the farming side of the business and Penwortham This green space is just a remnant of the former The rst chapel was built on this site in 1813 and Christmas 2015. Apart from tackling res the could survive as an inn. The Inn was sold recently ‘green’ or common. It was enclosed gradually then rebuilt in 1833. It was made redundant in crew have been called out to railway and road and is now a day nursery. The red-brick church from the medieval period until its eventual 1910 when a new and larger church was needed tra c accidents, a horse stuck on a fence, a cow adjacent is the new Methodist Church which complete enclosure in 1838, but was originally an for the growing congregation this was erected in a ditch, a small child trapped inside a tumble replaced the old chapel, seen earlier on the walk. expanse of common land which could be used close to the Bridge Inn. This later church is still in dryer, and a re on an industrial estate which Note also the remains of a railway bridge, which by the inhabitants to graze their sheep, pigs, cows use. The old chapel is now a motor business, and involved exploding beer kegs! They routinely sh held the line from Preston station south towards and poultry. The area was very rough scrubby has a blue plaque to commemorate its origin. bodies out of Preston . In 2006 there were . Penwortham had its own small station grass, rushes and bogs with several streams and Methodism was a very strong movement in plans to close the station and build a new one in just o Cop Lane. The line was shut down in the ditches. Preston and the surrounding areas. Hartington Road, Preston, but these plans were Beeching railway cuts of the early 1960s. later shelved. From this point take the public footpath/ Warning – this road is busy and just a bit cycleway beside the Methodist Church. divided into cottages and became domestic boring! But you will soon arrive at . . . Keep straight on to a footbridge spanning the top stroke of the ‘T’. This part was demolished dwellings owned by the Penwortham Hall the dual carriageway. If on foot take the later and only the down stroke of the ‘T’ remains Lower Penwortham Circular Walk estate. To lessen the connection with its past use, steps up to the bridge and turn to the today. This cottage and a neighbouring farm (still porches were added and the houses re-named 11 Penwortham Old Bridge left. Where the path forks, bear right and in existence but not visible from our walk) were ‘Manor Cottages’. and the Bridge Inn keep walking until you come out onto once part of a complex process of growing barley, Discover Penwortham’s Hidden Histories! Hill Road South. (If you are cycling, keep malting it, and delivering the malted grains to the Walk past the cottages and re-join Leyland on the path under the bridge until you Black Bull Inn for the process of brewing beer. The Road, bearing right. Look on the left hand reach the next path junction where you original maltster’s stone trough is nearby in a local 77 The Pear Tree Inn side of the road for the next landmark . . . bear right. You will emerge at the same garden, in use as an ornamental planter. This building was once part of the Penwortham place on Hill Road South). Turn left into At some point between 1840 and 1861 the Hall estate and at the time of the tithe map it was Look on the right hand side of the road Hill Road South, cross the road and walk maltster, William Mayor, left the cottage and used as a small factory for cotton weavers. By for the next building, set back behind a 10 Penwortham Fire Station Built in 1930, this station serves South Ribble to a footpath marked by a black and a red the new occupant, Robert Mayor, William’s son, 1861 Preston’s large scale factories had taken over terrace of houses, take the slight detour as far as Tarleton, Preston Docklands, Ashton litter bin at its entrance. This is known as didn’t take up malting, but was employed as a hand loom cotton production and the census into Greenbank Road for a closer look. on Ribble, Fishergate Hill, and the area south Greencroft Valley. Follow this pleasant ‘railway plate layer’. By this time beer-making was of that year shows that the weaving shop had of Corporation Street. The crew also can be woodland walk to the  rst junction in diminishing as a small local a air and was slowly become an inn, known as the Pear Tree Inn, which the path where you turn left. At the next going into the hands of large scale breweries, 99 Manor Cottages, called out to other parts of the country when Until 1750 the only means of crossing the River is still in business today. junction (marked by a lamp-post) bear which used the new railways to distribute their Greenbank Road necessary, and together with their boat, the Ribble between Preston and Penwortham was right. Keeping the stream on your left produce all over the country. This charming row of cottages was built in 1796 by ferry boat or by the ford close to the position side, continue until you reach your  nal as a single building for use as a workhouse. Any of the present bridge. The bridge, now open to building. From Malt Kiln Cottage continue up the pedestrians and cyclists only, dates from 1750, resident of Penwortham without the means path to the junction with Pope Lane, turn and is a listed building. The Bridge Inn was built to support themselves due to age, in rmity or right and follow the road back to the in 1826 and replaced the Old Boat House Inn, poverty could apply for a place in the workhouse 12 Malt Kiln Cottage Black Bull Inn. and be supported by the parish. The land from which the ferry had run. In common with Early documentation indicates that Malt Kiln was part of Middleforth Green originally and many other public houses in the area The Bridge Cottage was originally a water- powered mill, permission was given by the landowner, William Inn was also a farm, holding 21 acres. Inns were which assisted in the milling of grain for beer Farington Esq. (of Worden) for it to be built there. not viable as single businesses in the early days making. The cottage was originally built in a ‘T’ In the early 1860s Penwortham’s workhouse was but this situation began to change from about shape, with the malt kiln and storage buildings in 1900 and by the start of the First World War many