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Crompton Lodges
The Crompton Lodges we see today are formed from several smaller mill ponds from the industrial revolution and constructed in the 19th Century to provide water to the Farnworth Paper Mill which once stood on the grassland bedside the play area in the park.
Despite a bit of ironwork here and there the ponds now look like they might have been part of an old stately home’s garden, complete with swans and waterlillies. Crompton Lodges provide a home for great numbers of wildfowl and the old banks – now good tarmac paths provide an excellent viewing from all sides.
Waterlily Pads at Crompton Lodges
Old Map of Crompton Lodges (C1890)
A Family of Geese at Crompton Lodges
Local History
Historic monuments near Crompton Lodges
- Stone circle, ring cairn and two round cairns on Cheetham Close – 9.48 km away
- Roman road at Bottom o’ th’ Knotts Brow – 8.69 km away
- Lime kiln and associated culvert 50m north of Worsley Methodist Church – 6.65 km away
- Bridgewater Canal’s Barton Aqueduct embankment and retaining walls – 9.37 km away
- Affetside Cross at Affetside 75m north west of the Pack Horse Inn – 7.03 km away
- Promontory fort called Castlesteads on the east bank of the Irwell 550m SSE of Banks Farm – 8.26 km away
- Radcliffe Tower and site of hall 100m south west of the parish church in Radcliffe – 5.45 km away
- Wardley Hall moated site, Worsley – 4.98 km away
- New Hall Moat, Astley, 200m north of Astley Hospital – 7.06 km away
- Medieval moated site and later fortified manor house known as Bury Castle 100m west of the parish church – 7.44 km away
- Canal tunnel entrances and wharf – 6.25 km away
- Ringley Old Bridge – 2.64 km away
- Morley’s Hall moated site – 9.10 km away
- Astley Green Colliery: engine house and headgear – 7.73 km away