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Moss Bank Park
A huge park in north Bolton with attractions and sports facilities with woodland, open grassland and ornamental gardens in the parkland of the former Moss Bank House.
Moss Bank Park is popular with people of all ages, with extensive children’s play areas, miniature train and amusements on various days of the year. The majoirty of the park is grassland and wooded areas with two gardens that are perfect for a peaceful stroll or picnic.
The old Moss Bank House was demolished in the 1950s but a ranges of the old outbuildings remain. There is also a highly ornate, stone, ‘Public Drinking Fountain’ – non-functional, and some areas of local industrial archaeology – one car park being on the site of an early bleach works and the nearby Barrow Bridge chimney ‘towering’ above.
Local History
Historic monuments near Moss Bank Park
- Coking ovens and associated coal workings on Aushaw Moss 450m south west of Lower House – 9.48 km away
- Stone circle, ring cairn and two round cairns on Cheetham Close – 5.40 km away
- Round Loaf bowl barrow on Anglezarke Moor – 9.15 km away
- Round cairn on Noon Hill – 6.21 km away
- Round cairn on Winter Hill – 5.58 km away
- Roman road at Bottom o’ th’ Knotts Brow – 6.72 km away
- Steam tramway reversing triangle – 9.58 km away
- Affetside Cross at Affetside 75m north west of the Pack Horse Inn – 6.59 km away
- New Hall Moat, Astley, 200m north of Astley Hospital – 9.90 km away
- Round cairn 280m west of Old Harpers Farm – 3.44 km away