Wigan Album
Martland Mill
5 CommentsPhoto: RON HUNT
Item #: 32154
Ron, you put an Observer cutting with interesting commentary on the Album of this Elizabethan house, it was, in my mind criminally, demolished to make way for the industrial estate at Martland Mill.
http://wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=31522&gallery=Beech+Hill&offset=0
There's a photo on the Album of an ancient Medieval cruck framed barn on Walthew House Lane thought to belong to Walthew House farm, however note the comments by Kathleen Saunders nee Philbin who's family lived in Walthew House farm next door to this house prior to these buildings being demolished. http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=3&id=8393&gallery=H.+J.+Heinz%2C+Kitt+Green&offset=60
I remember another ancient farmhouse that was on Scot Lane by the name of Logwood farm, that too was demolished and Logwood Place built on the land.
Should have read Logwood House Farm, it was known locally has Pedder's after the family who lived there.
Someone mentioned other grand houses around Scot Lane - Laithwaite House which Laithwaite Road was named after, and Worsley Hall which is thought to have been located around where Bramble Grove is and was demolished when the estate was to be built.
Cyril - the old Worsley Hall moated farmhouse stood on what is now the top south west corner of Laithwaite Park, close to the junction of Plane Avenue and Poplar Avenue.
(Courtesy of https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side )
My mum was Jean Pedder of Logwood house farm.