Heritage

6 Results Found

1. Sankey Valley Country Park & Trail

   

   Location

   St.Helens

   This 7 mile linear park site & site of special scientific interest houses a visitor centre, nature reserve, plus many footpaths & cycleways.

   

2. Smithy Heritage Centre

   

   Location

   St.Helens

   The Smithy is based in an original Blacksmith's Forge on Kiln Lane that was still operating until the late 1970's. The Smithy has a FREE permanent exhibition or original artefacts that detail the heritage of Eccleston.

   

3. St.Mary's Lowe House Church

   

   Location

   St.Helens

   St Mary's Lowe House Church is a grade II listed building, opened in 1929, but there has been a church standing on the site long before. The church is an unusual and striking landmark with a tower and a dome of a Romanesque crossed with gothic styl

   

4. Statue of Queen Victoria (Grade II)

   

   Location

   St.Helens

   An important 1905 bronze statue by the renowned sculptor George Frampton.

   

5. Stephenson's Sankey Viaduct (Grade I)

   

   Location

   Newton-le-Willows

   This was the first viaduct on the world's first passenger railway line, traverses the UK's first industrial canal, & was built by Stephenson in 1830.

6. Sutton Oak Welsh Chapel

   

   Location

   St.Helens

   The Sutton Oak Welsh Chapel is a Grade II listed building nestled in the sleepy town of Sutton, near St.Helens. The chapel was built from copper slag by the Wesleyan Methodists in 1845. The materials used to make the chapel came from the copper works