Barrow Nook

Small rural hamlet on the fringes of Bickerstaffe in the county of Lancashire, England

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  • Bickerstaffe
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  • West Lancashire
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  • Lancashire
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  • North West
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53°31′05″N 2°50′10″W / 53.518°N 2.836°W / 53.518; -2.836

Barrow Nook is a small rural hamlet on the fringes of Bickerstaffe in the county of Lancashire, England.[1][2]

Stone quarried from Barrow Nook was used to build the church and school at Bickerstaffe in the early 1840s.

Barrow Nook Hall was the former home of Richard John Seddon, until he emigrated in 1866. He later became Prime Minister of New Zealand.

References

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 108 Liverpool (Southport & Wigan) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2010. ISBN 9780319228388.
  2. ^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.

External links

  • Media related to Barrow Nook at Wikimedia Commons


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