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According to "Old Maps" there is/was an Ivy Cottage near Appley Moor, on Appley Road North, just a short distance from its junction with Hall Lane where you find Dangerous Corner and a pub which on the old map was the Dicconson's Arms, not too far from Wrightington Hall.

Apologies, Appley Road North should have read Appley Lane North - just "travelled" down it via Google maps - no sign of the old Ivy Cottage. Found the Diccinson Arms on the corner with Hall Road (A5209)

The track is Stoney Gate Lane

Bit confused Geoff, Stoney Gate Lane is very level, this "track"/"road" isn't and is far more in keeping with the incline found on Appley Lane North but you may have local knowledge I don't possess. On the 1894 map it has the name Fern Cottage, in 1908 it seems to have two names, Fernleigh and Ivy Cottage and is situated on the corner of Appley Lane North and as you say Stoney Gate Lane.

I think Geoff is right,It is in Stoney Lane which rus down the side of the Rigby Arms to Parbold

AB, no sign of an "Ivy Cottage" on the old ordnance maps on Stoney Lane which as you know is quite different to Stoney Gate Lane which does have an Ivy Cottage.

Keith, my offering is probably wrong. There is a stone built house gable end on to Stoney Lane with the same road gradient position

There's a modern house on that site that looks very similar to Ivy Cottage with more or less the same footprint.

Thanks for clearing that up AB, it's time now for my apology to Geoff. Having looked far more closely at the ordnance survey map of 1908, two things are clearer. 1 The cottage is cheek by jowel with the road (as this is) and is labelled Ivy Cottage and 2 although the photo makes it appear to be on an incline it now seems to me, on closer inspection, that my interpretation isn't correct and so, despite my earlier assertion that this track is likely to be Appley Lane North my final conclusion is that it's Stoney Gate Lane after all, as Geoff stated. Fernlea is next to it but out of shot on the left and that building is set a little bit further back from the road, in this case Appley Lane North. Amen.

Keith,Geoff,AB: I've been reading your comments and can see you lads have put in some ground work, so what I may say here may be totally
Irrelevant but while its in wrightington I have to bring it to your attention.
I work for the N H S and most cottages are called Ivy House to accommodate Doctors on call, like the mortuararies are called Rose cottages.
If this cottage is within a three mile radius of the hospital could it have been used for that reason, please excuse my intervention if not.

I can confirm that John G although before I retired we had to stop saying "Rose Cottage". You will probably know why!

V B: Yes v b it's like every thing else these days when the p c brigade get hold of it, I keep looking for there office so I can get good money for talking a load of twaddle.

It does appear there could have been more than one Ivy Cottage.
The parish records for St James The Great Church, Wrightington, make mention of a James and Elizabeth Goulding, resident at Ivy Cottage, Mossy Lea, Wrightington – the Mossy Lea district, as distinct from Mossy Lea Road.
This would place it somewhere in the vicinity of Tunley, a mile or two from the Appley Lane/Dangerous Corner area.

Hi Mick, I too have found a James and Elizabeth Goulding in 1911 but living at Cardwells House Farm Wrightington. He was, unsurprisingly, a farmer. What year was your James and Elizabeth?

Hi Keith, details below, courtesy of Lancashire OPC...
Baptism: 14 May 1905 St James the Great, Wrightington, Lancs.
Nellie Goulding - [Child] of James Goulding & Elizabeth
Born: 24 Mar 1905
Abode: Ivy Cottage Mossy Lea
Occupation: Collier
Baptised by: J.T. Wilson
Register: Baptisms 1857 - 1921, Page 155,

Here is an interactive map. You can change the transparency with the slider at the bottom left menu. It's listed as Ivy Cottage and there is Fernleigh next door. Told it was gutted by a rugby player who did it up, took all the chimney's out etc.

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=53.5904&lon=-2.7240&layers=6

Thank you Susan, this is the resource I referenced, it is incredibly useful.

I was born in stoney gate lane in 1945 and lived there until 1963 this house was at the end of stoney gate lane and was inhabited by the Watkinson family at that time.I delivered papers there and did Mrs Watkinsons shopping for her on Saturdays for which I was paid the princely sum of 6d,2.5p in todays money I think the present house is the same one with extensions and modifications.Spent many happy hours as a young lad in Fairy Glen at the far end of the lane.Tickling for trout in the stream and bird nesting for eggs both of which are illegal now also delivered newspapers from the bottom of Appley Bridge to dangerous corner 6 days a week .wages 12s-6d plus tips on Saturdays when taking payment for papers.very happy childhood

Hi...Long story short there was a family named Goulding at 73 Apply Lane, Apply Bridge, Wigam, Lancashire that I have a letter from. Apparently, the son (Donald) was living with my husbands family during WW2. Parent Albert. Trying to find family. have family bible and letter. Help?

Hilda Norburn nee Goulding lived ar no 3 Stoneygate lane Appley Bridge,she had three sons Geoffrey,David and Eric.There is a David and Eric listed in the phonebook shown as living in the Appley Bridge area,I would imagine that this is the family you are looking for

I have discovered that when my great great grandfather Charles Randall died, in 1926, his address was Ivy Cottage, Wrightington. When his wife Jane died in 1937 her address was 58 Appley lane Appley Bridge.