Smithills Hall Kitchen Garden (ruin)

A little ‘lost’, walled garden, built in the latter half of the 19th Century, that once grew food for Smithills Hall.

The site was used as a plant nursery or ‘garden centre’ in the 1980’s and later as a plant nursery and storage site by the local council. Now quite overgrown with some structures remaining along with walls of the Gardener’s Cottage and an area of water tanks that collected spring water via a now broken aqueduct over the clough to the East.

Archway at Smithills Kitchen Garden

Local History

Historic monuments near Smithills Hall Kitchen Garden (ruin)

Coking ovens and associated coal workings on Aushaw Moss 450m south west of Lower House – 8.09 km away
Stone circle, ring cairn and two round cairns on Cheetham Close – 4.00 km away
Round Loaf bowl barrow on Anglezarke Moor – 8.44 km away
Round cairn on Noon Hill – 5.82 km away
Round cairn on Winter Hill – 5.07 km away
Roman road at Bottom o’ th’ Knotts Brow – 5.55 km away
Steam tramway reversing triangle – 8.23 km away
Affetside Cross at Affetside 75m north west of the Pack Horse Inn – 5.73 km away
Ringley Old Bridge – 9.51 km away
Round cairn 280m west of Old Harpers Farm – 3.57 km away