Like the Anglicans, Methodist residents of Rainhill had to travel outside the village to worship – the nearest Wesleyan Methodist churches being at Prescot and Nutgrove. In February 1860, the site for St James’ Church was acquired and the foundation stone laid. By the end of June that year, the church was opened for worship. […]
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When Bartholomew Bretherton came to live in Rainhill opposite the Ship lnn he prospered from his coaching business and he decided to build a church in a prominent position near to his estate.The impressive design was based on the Church of ‘Santa Bartolomeo’ in Rome. The foundation stone was laid by his daughter, Mrs Mary
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The well is on private land and may only be visited with prior permission from the farmer. St Anne’s Well is a Scheduled Monument. It is a medieval holy well which was believed to cure eye conditions in the 19th century. In recent years it had become entirely buried by farming and was on the
Until the beginning of the 19th century, members of the Church of England who lived in Rainhill had to travel to Prescot of Farnsworth to attend services. In 1836, the vicar of Prescot, the Reverend C.G.T. Driffield initiated an appeal for funds to build a chapel in Rainhill. The first church, consecrated in 1839, was
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Some of the buildings date back to the 14th Century. For over 500 years Rainhill Hall was the home of the Lancasters. They were a Catholic family who as recusants (someone who refused to attend services of the Church of England), were forced to pay fines which eventually led to them having to sell their
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Rainhill Cottage is thought to have been built around 1876 and is a grade II listed building detailed on the Historic England website. The first photo is by Sue Adair, and the second and third show the cottage after extensive fire damage in 2018. Click here for more Rainhill landmarks.
The stone bridge in Two Butt Lane carried travellers from Prescot to Sutton over the brook which marked the northerly boundary of the parish of Rainhill Before the turnpike system was introduced, local roads were often in a poor state of repair. People travelled on foot or by horseback whilst goods were conveyed by pack-horse
No one seems to know how the name ‘Monkey Bridge’ came about. Image: Doc Brown’s Travel Pictures It’s actually the foot-bridge that crosses the railway line from what is now Kendricks Fold to the River Estate (Severn Road, Dee Road etc). Prior to the Kendricks Fold Estate being built, access to it from Warrington Road
In 1753, Parliament passed an Act making local trustees responsible for collecting tolls and maintaining the road between Liverpool and Warrington. The following year an Order was made for milestones to be set up on the turnpike road, the miles being numbered from Liverpool Exchange. The tenth milestone, which possibly dates from 1829, can be
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There was probably an earlier building in existence before Alexander Chorley built the manor Farmhouse in 1662. john Chorley, a merchant, inherited the property in the 18th Century, but became bankrupt in 1806 and the estate was sold. There is archaeological evidence that the building was surrounded by a moat. The present building shows a
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