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Security cameras guard the entrance to the now disused brick works at the top of Smethurst Road in the north west corner of the square. The date stone on the building on the right reads 1925.
©Gary Rogers
Directly opposite Billinge Hospital is the Methodist church at the junction of Crank Road and Upholland Road
©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.2km<br/>This View across one of the camping fields was taken from SD523024 looking north towards Smethurst Road.
©Dave Smethurst
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©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.3km<br/>Part of an event to raise money for a local hospice held at the Scout Camp.
©Matthew Hatton
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©Raymond Knapman
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©Sue Adair
Dist:0.4km<br/>The maternity wing at Billinge Hospital which was built in the 1960's was closed at the end of 2004 due to NHS "rationalisation of services". The site is going to be cleared to make way for a new housing development further increasing the population of the once small village of Billinge.
©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.4km<br/>inscription reads: Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Erected 1845 by Wm Holt, Bispham Hall.
©Gary Rogers
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©Colin Pyle
Dist:0.4km<br/>An area of land behind houses opposite the hospital on Upholland Road, Billinge. Accessible via a narrow path between the houses or from the rear of the Holt Arms on Crank Road. (July 08 - access from Upholland Road is now blocked by a wooden gate)
©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.4km<br/>Upholland Road, Billinge
©Gary Rogers
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©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.5km<br/>Inside one of the few remaining derelict buildings on this site.
©Gary Rogers
Dist:0.5km<br/>The new houses stand where Billinge Hospital once stood. Built by Persimmon Homes, a few have been sold but development of the site seems to have slowed in the last couple of months perhaps due to the effects of the 'credit crunch' and the downturn in the economy....
©Gary Rogers

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