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The Oaks railway station served the community of The Oaks in Bromley Cross, Lancashire, England, from 1850 to 1950.
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Canon Slade School
Canon Slade School is a coeducational Church of England secondary school and sixth form located in Bradshaw in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.
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Hall i' th' Wood
Hall i' th' Wood is an early 16th-century manor house in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It is a Grade I listed building and is currently used as a museum by Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council. It was the manor house for the moiety of the Tonge with Haulgh township held by the Brownlows in the 16th century. The original building is timber framed and has a stone flagged roof; there were later additions to the house, built from stone, in 1591 and 1648. The name represents "Hall in the Wood' spoken in the local regional English dialect and is pronounced .
The house was not used as a gentry house but rather given over to multiple occupation by families engaged in industry. Four (previously five) separate dwellings can be identified, each with its own entrance and staircase. One part was let to Samuel Crompton during the 18th century, where he designed and built the first spinning mule. About 1779, Crompton succeeded in producing a mule-jenny, a machine which spun yarn suitable for use in the manufacture of muslin. It was known as the muslin wheel or the Hall i' th' Wood wheel from the name of the house.
Hall i' th' Wood was bought by William Lever (later Lord Leverhulme) in 1899 and was restored by Jonathan Simpson and Edward Ould. Lever gave the house to the Corporation of Bolton in 1900.
An episode of the television programme Most Haunted was filmed in the hall in 2008.
In Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833, is a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon to an engraving of a painting of the hall by William Linton. This dwells on the changes the hall has seen over the centuries.
The hall closed in 2021 for essential maintenance, due to severe structural issues, including timber decay, damp, rot, and damage caused by vandalism. But in December 2024 it was announced that Historic England had pledged £47,500 towards Bolton Council's £95,000 plan for essential survey work.
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St Maxentius' Church, Bradshaw
St Maxentius' Church is in Bradshaw, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Walmsley, the archdeaconry of Bolton and the diocese of Manchester. Its benefice is united with those of five other local churches. Standing separately from the church is the tower of an earlier church. The present church is dedicated to Saint Maxentius, an obscure French saint, and is the only church in England with this dedication.
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South Turton
South Turton is part of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester, England. There is no settlement or administrative area of South Turton; instead the name is a modern coinage to describe the area transferred to Bolton in 1974 from the former Turton Urban District in Lancashire. The area forms part of the built up area of Bolton, with the main suburbs within the area being Bradshaw and Bromley Cross. South Turton lies on the southern slopes of the West Pennine Moors, and had a population of 25,067 in 2007.
Turton Urban District was abolished in 1974 and was divided between the Bolton district of Greater Manchester and the Blackburn district of Lancashire. The northern part of Turton, including the village itself (now generally known as Chapeltown), became a civil parish called North Turton. In contrast, no parish was created for the part of the former urban district transferred to Bolton. As well as Bradshaw and Bromley Cross, South Turton includes Eagley, Egerton and Harwood.
Between 2000 and 2008, Bolton council ran a South Turton Area Forum as a committee for local issues to be discussed. The South Turton Area Forum was abolished in 2008 being split into separate forums for each electoral ward, with the council having decided the forums needed to be more relevant to local communities.