An Industrial and Pottery Walk round Buckley - Number 20"

Brookhill, Buckley

1967

see entry 1.239

AN INDUSTRIAL AND POTTERY WALK ROUND BUCKLEY - NUMBER 20

Pause for a few moments in order to take in the extensive view. North lies the Dee Estuary. Deeside industrial sites can be identified. Pargate and Neston lie on the opposite side of the river. Ellesmere Port, Runcorn Bridge, Stanlow oil refineries and Liverpool are often visible. East along Liverpool Road are Farmstile, Ewloe Hall, and Cross Trees (traditionally an ancient site of the gallows) and Pickow Farm. Smithy Lane and its smithy with a shallow valley extending through Ewloe to Ewloe Castle can be traced.

Backwards, along the path we have just taken, was the Pinfold and also a district known as the Willow. Perhaps this name denotes an area of these trees, or quite possibly is a reminder of the ancient time when this township was the abode of the "Wallae" ie. "the strangers" or The Welsh. An Old English name is "Waelesch" or "native settlement" as opposed to the surrounding Norman settlements.

Author: Bentley, James

An Industrial and Pottery Walk round Buckley - Number 20"

Brookhill, Buckley

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