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Martland Mill

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MARTLAND MILL HOUSE
MARTLAND MILL HOUSE
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 32154
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE THIS WAS?

Comment by: Cyril on 3rd May 2020 at 13:11

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

Comment by: Cyril on 3rd May 2020 at 20:06

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.

Comment by: Cyril on 4th May 2020 at 17:26

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.

Comment by: MickLD on 6th May 2020 at 09:51

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 )

Comment by: David Nicholson on 15th September 2020 at 21:57

My mum was Jean Pedder of Logwood house farm.

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