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This plaque is on the side of the stone building just in front of the white one in the other photo.
©John Lomas
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.2km<br/>This church is very much tucked away off the main road.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.4km<br/>The James Hargreaves Memorial Garden and the Old Post Office where Hargreaves was living when he invented the Spinning Jenny.
©John Lomas
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.4km<br/>This path goes from Oswaldtwistle to Stanhill avoiding Stanhill Road. The ground is very soggy in the current rain.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is where Robert Peel (Grandfather of Sir Robert Peel Prime Minister) had his calico print works (1760-79), very very little is left of the works. The area has been planted with trees with historical information posted on the side of footpaths which traverse the area.
©Alexander P Kapp
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.5km<br/>Presumably once used for the benefit of the Brookside mills in Oswaldtwistle. This one appears to be very full.
©Bill Boaden
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©robert wade
Dist:0.6km<br/>It is a wet and misty day, but you can still see the M65 motorway between Accrington and Blackburn. The nearer rooftops are in West End, Oswaldtwistle.
©Bill Boaden
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©Alexander P Kapp
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.7km<br/>Probably used to keep animal feed stuff etc.
©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.7km<br/>Looking south from Stanhill Road
©Alexander P Kapp

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