An Industrial and Pottery Walk round Buckley - Number 2 (includes wxamples of pottery)"

Brunswick Road, Buckley

1967

see entry 1.239

AN INDUSTRIAL AND POTTERY WALK ROUND BUCKLEY - NUMBER 2

About 100 yards west of the site, a small passageway diverts to the west and crossing the main road, enters a driveway. En route, it passes alongside a small cottage with a window in the side. This was the coal weigh house of Lexham Green Colliery. It was a source of fuel for Hancock's. About 1840, Hancock's and Co. obtained coal leases from Admiral Dundas, a landowner of estates between Aston Hall and the River Dee at Kingsferry (or Lowerferry). The tramway was then diverted into another tramway in the vicinity of Paradise Farm, Wood Lane. This terminated at Lowerferry and the Sandycroft terminus was abandoned.

Until a housing develpoment occured at the north of the site, its track could be seen, and lengths of tramway formed a hedge, now fencing.

Author: Bentley, James

An Industrial and Pottery Walk round Buckley - Number 2 (includes wxamples of pottery)"

Brunswick Road, Buckley

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