Winwick – Newton-le-Willows – Burtonwood

PUGIN AND THE RE-BUILDING OF WINWICK CHANCEL

19 September 202428 September 2024 Steven Dowd

Winwick Church

By the Rev. W. A. Wickham: 28th November 1907 Perhaps no man set so deep a mark, directly and indirectly, upon the English church architecture of the nineteenth century as Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, of whom Dean Stanley spoke as “that splendid, if eccentric, genius, who gave himself, though not with undivided love, to the service of another Communion” (qu. Scott, Recollections, p. 390). Ruskin, indeed, sneered at Pugin’s genius, and spoke of him (Stones of Venice, Append. 12; qu. Ferrey, Recollections, p. 164) as “one of the smallest possible…

The parish of Winwick

14 September 202428 September 2024 Steven Dowd

winwick-church

The ancient parish of Winwick lies between Sankey Brook on the south-west and Glazebrook and a tributary on the north and east, the distance between these brooks being 4½ or 5 miles. The extreme length of the parish is nearly 10 miles, and its area 26, 502 acres. The highest ground is on the extreme north-west border, about 350 ft.; most of the surface is above the 100 ft. level, but slopes down on three sides to the boundaries, 25 ft. being reached in Hulme in the south. The geological…

Annals of the Lords of Warrington

22 August 202428 September 2024 Steven Dowd

Annals of the Lords of Warrington and Bewsey

The following chronological list is derived from the 1873 book titled “Annals of the Lords of Warrington,” a historical account that delves into the centuries following the Norman Conquest of England. This compilation provides a detailed exploration of significant events, land transactions, and the involvement of notable families in the regions surrounding Warrington, including Newton-in-Makerfield, Burtonwood, Haydock, Parr, Winwick, Bradley Park, Bewsey, Culcheth, Great Sankey, and Lower Sankey. These records shed light on the development of these localities from the 11th century onwards, highlighting their strategic importance, social structures, and…

THE EARLY HISTORY OF WARRINGTON

26 August 202428 September 2024 Steven Dowd

Dr James Kendrick 1909-1882 Warrington

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF WARRINGTON. by Dr James Kendrick. Transcribed from the newspaper: Manchester Courier Published: Serialised Weekly from 8th Jan 1842 through to the 11 June 1842 The author of the following “Contributions” has few preliminary remarks to offer. He has been urged to their publication by many of his friends, who felt an interest in them when brought forward, a short while since, in the form of lectures. Wanting both leisure and inclination to compile distinct volume on the subject, he has selected a periodical of…

1811: WINWICK BROAD OAK, BATTLE OF LISSA

18 August 202428 September 2024 Steven Dowd

Winwick Broad Oak

The above illustration, which is reproduced from an old print kindly lent to us by Miss Calvert of Warrington, represents a memorable event in the history of the quaint village of Winwick, which occurred on August 26, 1811. Beneath the branches of the giant tree—the Winwick Broad Oak—a public dinner was held in honor of Captain, later Admiral, Sir Phipps Hornby, who had just returned to his native village after distinguishing himself in a decisive engagement with the French fleet in the Adriatic. At the present time, when the whole…

Winwick : It’s History and Antiquities

5 January 201428 September 2024 Steven Dowd

By WILLIAM BEAMONT. Second Edition, 1878 Time, that great clock which requires no winding up, and possesses what so many dreamers have sought for and sought in vain—the secret of perpetual motion—has also, like other clocks, from time to time, but at longer intervals, its striking times which summon attention and invite us to pause and look back, promising in return something which from the past shall teach the present how to improve the future, and instruct while it amuses us. CONTENTS. Part 1. Etymology of Winwick. Part 2. Oswald,…

Southworth Burial Mound

28 December 201317 June 2024 Steven Dowd

I recently purchased a number of the Burtonwood Brewery in-house ‘Top Hat’ magazines from the 1980s, in one of them was this article concerning the excavation of the Southworth Burial Mound which is between Winwick and Lowton. Digging into the roots of history Remnants of a long-lost civilisation have been unearthed from plough-blade depth on open farmland, close to a huge man-made crater which will eventually accommodate colliery waste. And to mark the sensational discovery, being hailed as the North’s most important prehistoric find of the last decade, the archaeology…

ST, Oswald’s, Winwick.

27 December 20137 April 2018 Steven Dowd

There is no beginning to the istory of Winwick. It goes beyond the Fourteenth Century to the earliest days of the English, to a time “when a King of Mercia was resisting evangelisation with free slaughter; and then, when we seem to have come to the birth of the ancient Saxon village, we see it again in a remoter vista, shining magically in the opal light of legend. The learned Usher thought that Winwick was Caer Gwentquic, one of the twenty cities collected by the monk Gildas out of Nennius;…

St Oswald’s, Winwick Church

22 April 201128 December 2013 Steven Dowd

A FOREWORD It is with much pleasure that I commend this brief sketch of Winwick Church. To those who, like myself, have had the privilege of loving and living in Winwick, this beautiful Church stands on a little hill apart, not actually only, but ideally, for it possesses the atmosphere that comes from a long succession of devoted men and women whose worship and service have here been concentrated—the atmosphere that only comes where holy things have been loved and tended for many a day. In Mr. Pearce’s sympathetic outline…

Sites of Interest East of Newton

17 October 201022 December 2013 Steven Dowd

Sites of Interest to The East on Newton-le-Willows Site number 01 Site name Winwick to Golborne Line NGR SJ 5948 9484 to SJ 5977 9535 Site type Railway Period Post-medieval HER number MHER SJ 5994/16 Designation Sources GMAC 1995; Wardell Armstrong 2001; Ordnance Survey 1893c Description The railway was bnilt in the late nineteenth century to connect the Liverpool and Manchester railway line (Site 02) with the Warrington to Preston route. It first appears on the 1893 Ordnance Survey maps and thereafter on all subsequent Ordnance Survey…

Tumuli at Winwick, 1860

21 September 200922 December 2013 Steven Dowd

The earlier survey gives the more correct representation of the place, as there have certainly been at least two barrows, one in the field on the east, the other in that on the west side of the lane. The latter, which we shall first describe, is on a farm called " the Highfields," the ground sloping considerably from the north. The tumulus is about six feet above the level of the lane, and the ground to the west is uneven, forming a sort of bank, while the fence on the…

The Fee of Makerfield

7 September 200931 August 2024 Steven Dowd

THE FEE OF MAKERFIELD ; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF SOME OF ITS LORDS, THE BARONS OF NEWTON. By William Beamont, Esq. (READ FEBRUARY 22ND, 1872.) ENGLISH historians have joined chorus in ascribing to our immortal Alfred the institution of hundreds and townships into which the country is now divided. Certain it is that when he resumed the throne after his temporary retirement, and found, owing to Danish misrule, the ancient police of the country in ruin, he first set himself to readjust and settle upon their present basis the…

The Battle of Winwick Pass, 19 Aug 1648

25 August 200822 December 2013 Steven Dowd

The following text is taken from a magazine I was recently sent a copy of, it included a brief but fairly full account of the Battle of Winwick Pass, the description of the historical events at Winwick preceded the main section of the magazines article, which was to set the scene historically for a Miniature WarGaming event of the Battle.I could have re-written the article to remove the War Game referances, but I decided to leave them in, because the details for numbers of soldiers, horses etc add to the…

Sites of Interest: East of Newton-le-Willows

3 July 200822 December 2013 Steven Dowd

Sites of Interest to The East of Newton-le-Willows Site number 01 Site name Winwick to Golborne Line NGR SJ 5948 9484 to SJ 5977 9535 Site type Railway Period Post-medieval HER number MHER SJ 5994/16 Designation Sources GMAC 1995; Wardell Armstrong 2001; Ordnance Survey 1893c Description The railway was bnilt in the late nineteenth century to connect the Liverpool and Manchester railway line (Site 02) with the Warrington to Preston route. It first appears on the 1893 Ordnance Survey maps and thereafter on all subsequent Ordnance Survey maps. Assessment The…

The M6 Motorway

11 April 200828 December 2013 Steven Dowd

The first section of the 63 miles long North-South Motorway through Lancashire to be completed was the Preston By-pass (8 miles)—Britain’s first motorway—opened by the Prime Minister, the Right Hon. Harold Macmillan, M.P., on the 5th December, 1958. The second section was the Lancaster By-pass (12 miles) opened by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Rt. Hon. Dr. Charles Hill, M.P., on the 11th April, 1960. The Minister of Transport authorised the construction of the third section of the Motorway between the southern end of the Preston By-pass…