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Anglezarke has a[[cricket]] ground. The 1st and 2nd XI cricket teams play in the Moore and Smalley Palace Shield. |
Anglezarke has a [[cricket]] ground. The 1st and 2nd XI cricket teams play in the Moore and Smalley Palace Shield. |
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Revision as of 21:24, 19 December 2010
| White Coppice | |
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 White Coppice Cricket Ground | |
| OS grid reference | SD616190 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | CHORLEY |
| Postcode district | PR6 |
| Dialling code | 01257 |
| Police | Lancashire |
| Fire | Lancashire |
| Ambulance | North West |
| UK Parliament | |
White Coppice is a hamlet near Chorley, Lancashire, England. It was the most populated part of the township of Anglezarke in the 19th century. Close to the settlement in the early 19th century were quarries and small coal mines. The hamlet lies to the north of Anglezarke Reservoir in the Rivington reservoir chain built to provide water for Liverpool in the mid 19th century.[1][2]
White Coppice had a cotton mill at the start of the Industrial Revolution. Its mill lodge provided water for a steam engine and before that the mill was powered by a waterwheel on the stream. Around 1900 the mill was owned by Alfred Ephraim Eccles a supporter of the Temperance movement.[3]
Notable residents
- Walter Haworth was born here on 19 March 1883 and won a Nobel Prize in chemistry.[4]
Cricket
Anglezarke has a cricket ground. The 1st and 2nd XI cricket teams play in the Moore and Smalley Palace Shield.
References
- ^ Rivington Reservoirs, Pastscape, retrieved 2010-06-17
- ^ Rivington Reservoirs (main scheme), Engineering Timelines, retrieved 2010-12-16
- ^ White Coppice walk, Lancashire Telegraph, retrieved 2010-12-16
- ^ Bircumshaw, L. L.; Horrocks, Sally M., "Haworth, Sir (Walter) Norman (1883–1950)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, retrieved 16 December 2010
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