The following article is reproduced from our newsletter number 104, contributed by Stephen Tonge
Finding Birchwood
Farrer’s ‘A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5’, published in 1911, says that the estate of Birchwood in Turton ‘gave a name to its ancient owners’. There is no such modern day place name, so I wondered – where was Birchwood?
View of Horridge Fold Barn looking west from Turton Heights, 2017 |