Longsight to Firwood Fold (Peter Firth)

Upcoming Walk - July 2026

7.30pm at Harwood Methodist Church
Thursday 23rd July 2026

Guide: Peter Firth

Longsight to Firwood Fold (and back again) 

This guided walk continues from the heritage walk that Peter led us on in the summer of 2024.  It takes in Firwood Fold and part of Tonge Moor Road. It is a walk of around two miles, starting and ending at Harwood Methodist Church.

Firwood Fold
Credit: Bolton Library & Museum Service, Bolton Council

Jussey - Turton's Adopted Village in France

This article below was published in our Newsletter No. 21 in October 1980.  It seems that Turton adopted a French village called Jussey in the early 1920s under a scheme called the British League of Help for the Devastated Areas of France.