Smithills Woodland Trust Pen Portrait Five Houses 1

Five Houses

Going up Winter Hill Road, towards its summit, on the left hand side, there was a group of terraced houses. Nothing remains today apart from a layby and a bank separating the houses from the brick works. This was Five Houses, probably constructed of locally made red brick, which was unusual; miners’ cottages were usually

History Across the Smithills Estate

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