Rockavon and Rockhaven Castle

Rockavon was a house that stood in the middle of what is Wilderswood today. At the time the land was open fields down to Brinks Wood below, and trees following down the stream to the west – this woodland was known as Wilderswood at the time.

The former dwelling of local attourney Richard Brownlow in the mid-19th Century who added castellations to an enlarged version of the house some years later along with ‘Castle’ to the name of the house. Leverhulme bought the property at the turn of the 20th Century. The house and outbuildings were demolished in the mid-20th Century

The site is very overgrown and most of the building rubble has been raked into the earth to facilitate the planting of pines in the 1950s.

Interestingly a number of plants and the odd tree remains from the former gardens including a collection of various heritage raspberries that still bear fruit each year.