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 One part of the long B5090 main road through Bollington, Wellington Road runs from its junction with Palmerston Street at Adlington Road to its junction with Henshall Road at Grimshaw Lane.
Approach from Palmerston Street or Henshall Road.
Leads to Adlington Road, Round Gardens, Garden Street, Hawthorn Road and Waterhouse Avenue, Irwell Rise, Albert Road, Courier Row, Stonemill Court, Grimshaw Lane.
Nearest shops - at two points in Wellington Road. Co-op
foodstore.
Nearest pub - Bayleaf, Dog & Partridge, Royal Oak.
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 Pictured at its junction with Grimshaw Lane, this end of Wellington Road provides a selection of shops and services. A gateway between the buildings on the left leads to Courier Row (see below), a couple of delightful cottages with lovely gardens and a pond.
Wellington Road is crossed by the stone arches of the Macclesfield, Bollington & Marple Railway, now converted into the Middlewood Way. Along its length you will find the Town Hall (below), Methodist church, St Gregory's church, Kay Metzeler's factory at Waterhouse Mill, the Waterhouse Medical Centre, Brook House - an important Bollington house recently restored, Bollington Hall farmhouse - one of the oldest buildings in the area (see below). Terry Waite was born at 60 Wellington Road (opposite the Waterhouse).
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 Bollington Town Hall flying the town flag - White Nancy on a green background - on Wellington Road. Plans to move the town administration to a more suitable premises seem now to be in abayance.
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 Bollington
Hall farmhouse is one of the oldest
buildings in the district; English Heritage says 16thC origins,
the plaque says c.1365.
Right behind it used to stand Bollington corn
mill whose wheel was fed by a leat that brought water all
the way from near Bridgend in Palmerston Street. The mill
was demolished very many years ago and Riverbank Close was
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fine terrace of stone cottages, 97-107, by Albert Road.
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On the 1862 map Wellington Road is marked as Wellington Lane, and that's what it was then, green fields and very few properties.
Courier Row
This is a private road, very short, with just a couple of properties. Older Bollington residents may be heard referring to it as 'down fout'. The meaning of this phrase has been lost with time although down probably means what it does today - as in 'going down the village'. But what a fout is we don't know. It is likely to be a dialect word and maybe a corruption of same. If you have any clues as to its origin and meaning please let me know! There is a reference to the Fout in Bollington Live!, edition 30, page 11, but alas no explanation of the name.
Listed buildings
The links are all to the Images of England web site provided by English Heritage.
Bollington Hall Farmhouse, 83 Wellington Road
; II, 16thC origins.
Methodist Church, Wellington Road; II, 1886 by William Waddington of Manchester.
