One of the old lanes of Bollington, Flash Lane is short, narrow and winding, leading up from the Stockport Road to Bollington Road beside the Cock & Pheasant inn. It has a very few houses alongside the road plus driveways to The Mount and to a farm. It also provides access to properties originally alongside Stockport Road but which became isolated when the Silk Road was built.
Approach off the roundabout at the northern end of the Silk Road or Bollington Road.
Nearest shops - Ovenhouse Lane.
Nearest pubs - Cock & Pheasant.
Flash Lane was known as Bench Lane in the 19thC; marked as such on the 1862 map. The Orange Tree inn was located just beyond the bottom end of Flash Lane, approximately where Stockport Road begins today.
The Mount
This fine country house was built by Philip Antrobus, the builder of Lowerhouse Mill, in the 1820s. It was positioned on the high ground to the southwest of Lowerhouse so that he could overlook his achievements.
The Mount was later lived in by Samuel Greg when he took over Lowerhouse mill and the surrounding property.
During the 19thC (and later?) the house seems to have been known simply as Mount. I am not sure when it became The Mount.
Today The Mount is a retirement care home.
