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Red Rock
A rural area of Wigan popular for it’s canalside walks, interesting, disused railway lines and woodland.
Historically the site of the former Red Rock station on the Lancashire Union Joint Line which runs beside a section of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, at one time the Lancaster Canal South End, which was partly used to transport coal from the many local collieries.
Local History
Historic monuments near Red Rock
- Up Holland Benedictine priory – 7.79 km away
- Headless Cross, Grimeford – 4.62 km away
- Bretters Farm moated site and two fishponds – 5.79 km away
- Pike Stones chambered long cairn – 8.49 km away
- Round cairn on Noon Hill – 8.02 km away
- Round Loaf bowl barrow on Anglezarke Moor – 9.87 km away
- Bradley Hall, moated site, fishponds and connecting channels – 9.22 km away
- The Moat House moated site 600m WNW of St David’s Church – 1.69 km away
- Cross base on Standish Wood Lane 700m south east of Standish Hall – 2.49 km away
- Moated site at Arley Hall, Haigh near Wigan – 0.91 km away
- Mabs Cross on Standishgate, 20m west of Mabs Cross School building – 3.55 km away
- Gidlow Hall moated site, Aspull, 560m NNE of Pennington Hall – 4.87 km away
- Cross base at the junction of Standish Green Lane, Standish Wood Lane and Beech Walk, 200m NNW of Strickland House Farm, Standish – 2.37 km away
- Cross base on Green Lane 300m north of Strickland House Farm, Standish – 2.25 km away
- Market cross in the marketplace to the west of St Wilfrid’s Church, Standish – 2.29 km away
- Winstanley moated site and five fishponds – 7.64 km away
- Haigh Sough mine drainage portal, 310m west of Park House – 2.74 km away