Running from the junction with Henshall Road, which is between Moss Brow and Hall Hill in Bollington Cross, to the roundabout on the A523 Silk Road, Bollington Road passes through terraces of stone cottages and 1930s to 60s brick developments. A small area around the junction with Princess Drive is known as Turner Heath.

Approach directly off the A523 Silk Road, or via Flash Lane, Henshall Road.

Leads to Moss Brow, Kingsway, Flash Lane, Princess Drive, Clarke Lane.

Nearest shops – Taylor’s Stores opposite the Cock & Pheasant; general store and others at Ovenhouse Lane, shops at West Bollington.

Nearest pubs – on the street the Cock & Pheasant.

Council Ward – West.

The Parish Church of St Oswald is in the street.

There are a number of notable buildings in Bollington Road. The picture shows Bollington Cross School with the church beyond.

The distinguished physicist Sir James Chadwick (1891-1974) was educated at the school.

To mark the Millennium, a new cross was installed on the green at the junction of Kingsway and Bollington Road. This was created by Doreen Earl who took the stone from her Sycamore Quarry at Kerridge and cut it to shape on a computer controlled stone saw. The impression of the cross and the date, 2000, were cut by sand blasting.

The name Bollington Cross recognises the fact that there has previously been a cross in the village. Unfortunately, the location of this original cross is not known.

The Rookery is another fine house on Bollington Road, the last on the right going towards Macclesfield. It was refurbished and divided into six units in 2004-06.

The house was built and occupied by Philip Antrobus whose family also built several of the original mills in Bollington including Lowerhouse in 1818/19. In 1832 we believe The Rookery to have been occupied by William Crosley, the engineer and builder of the Macclesfield Canal, then being completed.

At that time, 1830s, the house was smaller, extending (see lower picture) from the right side as far as the gutter down pipe to the left of centre.

By 1851 Peter Brooke, Cotton Merchant, age 76, had retired to the house, seemingly a widower having two servants to attend him.

Another notable house on Bollington Road rebuilt by Philip Antrobus is Turner Heath House (opposite Princess Drive today). Antrobus also had a small mill beside the house. Other well known occupiers of Turner Heath House include the Samuel Greg and the Coope families.

Chapel Street, Bollington Cross¹

The houses that stand at right angles to Bollington Road and today have the addresses 53 – 59 Bollington Road were once known as Chapel Street (not to be confused with the existent Chapel Street at the other end of town!). These four cottages were actually built as a Primitive Methodist chapel in 1833. The chapel was used for worship and for Sunday School for the local children. The congregation amounted to between 200 and 300 each Sunday! The chapel was disparagingly referred to by non-Methodists as the ‘ranting chapel’!