Stocks Lane (cul-de-sac), Carleton, Blackpool. Walker’s Farm/Hill House would have been located on the left past the gate. Friday 22 January 2021
Stocks Lane (cul-de-sac), Carleton, Blackpool. Walker’s Farm/Hill House would have been located on the left past the gate. Friday 22 January 2021
CARLETON – BISPHAM VILLAGE (LONG VANISHED DIRECT FOOTPATH)
In the olden days when it was just fields between Carleton and Bispham village there was a footpath that linked the two communities, over time as the land was developed this path disappeared. The route of the footpath is described below:
Stocks Lane commences at the junction with Blackpool Road B5268, it is the lane that you go down to Carleton Crematorium which continues north for a short distance past the left turn in to the crematoriums private driveway located opposite the southern end of Robbins Lane.
Stocks Lane was originally longer than it is now with the footpath to Bispham village commencing at Walker’s Farm (also known as Hill House) the path ran alongside the lane on the north side of it in a westerly direction through what is now Carleton Cemetery. Just west of the current western boundary of the cemetery the lane ended and only the footpath continued north-west to where Bristol Avenue is now. The path then turned north crossing a watercourse via a foot stick (footbridge) and continued north through what is now the recycling centre (formerly the destructor) it then then turned sharp left and ran parallel on the southern side of what is now Wakefield Road (cul-de-sac). From this point it continued west crossing todays Ashfield Road and roughly along the current back garden boundary fences of properties on Buxton Avenue and Denstone Avenue until reaching todays Bangor Avenue where it turned north-west coming out on to Blackpool Road just north of Myrtle Bank (todays junction with Denstone Avenue). You then continued north for a short distance along Blackpool Road to reach Bispham Village.
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
Stocks Lane (cul-de-sac), Carleton, Blackpool. Walker’s Farm/Hill House would have been located on the left past the gate. Friday 22 January 2021
Stocks Lane (cul-de-sac), Carleton, Blackpool. Walker’s Farm/Hill House would have been located on the left past the gate. Friday 22 January 2021
CARLETON – BISPHAM VILLAGE (LONG VANISHED DIRECT FOOTPATH)
In the olden days when it was just fields between Carleton and Bispham village there was a footpath that linked the two communities, over time as the land was developed this path disappeared. The route of the footpath is described below:
Stocks Lane commences at the junction with Blackpool Road B5268, it is the lane that you go down to Carleton Crematorium which continues north for a short distance past the left turn in to the crematoriums private driveway located opposite the southern end of Robbins Lane.
Stocks Lane was originally longer than it is now with the footpath to Bispham village commencing at Walker’s Farm (also known as Hill House) the path ran alongside the lane on the north side of it in a westerly direction through what is now Carleton Cemetery. Just west of the current western boundary of the cemetery the lane ended and only the footpath continued north-west to where Bristol Avenue is now. The path then turned north crossing a watercourse via a foot stick (footbridge) and continued north through what is now the recycling centre (formerly the destructor) it then then turned sharp left and ran parallel on the southern side of what is now Wakefield Road (cul-de-sac). From this point it continued west crossing todays Ashfield Road and roughly along the current back garden boundary fences of properties on Buxton Avenue and Denstone Avenue until reaching todays Bangor Avenue where it turned north-west coming out on to Blackpool Road just north of Myrtle Bank (todays junction with Denstone Avenue). You then continued north for a short distance along Blackpool Road to reach Bispham Village.
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.