Cockshott Wood

Farmhouse dated 1661, with later addition; now house. Brick on stone plinth, stone dressings, slate roof with chimneys at left gable, on ridge, and at right side. L-shaped plan, both elements of 2 bays. Two and 2½ storeys. Front formed by 2½ storey gable of C17 house with 2-storey later addition to the left; at the junction, and rising only to the eaves, is a 2-storey gabled porch, the front of its ground floor all of stone, continued above as quoins, with a chamfered doorway, above this a stone tablet (protected by a straight dripstone), the 4 corners and the centre of which are lettered in relief: 1 6/ O/ WD/ 6 1 (= William and Dorothy Osbaldeston) and at 1st floor a 3-light moulded stone mullion window. Right of the porch the C17 house has stone quoins, single-course brick bands on 2 levels, and double chamfered stone mullion windows in all walls: at the front, of 2 and 3 lights at ground floor (slightly different levels), 2 and 3 lights at 1st floor, and 3 lights in the attic; at the side 3 and 4 lights at ground floor, 3 and 3 above; and at the back, 5, 5 and 3 lights. Extension left of porch has sashed windows with segmental brick heads in the 1st bay, low sashed windows in the 2nd bay. Rear has a lean-to in the re-entrant, and sashed windows with glazing bars in the 1st bay. Interior: the C17 part has ovolo moulded beams on both floors, a diamond-pattern stone flagged floor in the entrance hall, cross-corner fireplaces in both ground floor rooms, an original dog leg staircase with turned balusters, and a purlin roof. Remarkably complete survival of interior detail of this period. Grade II* listed in 1960 - source Link

Often the first trees to colonise abandoned land. Fast growing and short-lived, their rotting trunks improve the soil for other more long-lived trees.

Now a tree-lined public footpath and traffic-free cycle route. But built as a freight route, by a canal company, to link the two separate parts of the Lancaster Canal. For more information see SD5427 : The Old Tram Road Towards Preston.

The tree had grown on the side of the tramroad embankment, and seems to have toppled after wet weather.

Probably shattered in a recent storm.

Bridge Marker in the parapet of Stone Bridge, River Lostock, on the east side of Todd Lane South in Lostock Hall. Milestone Society National ID: LA_CUERD01br

Bamber Bridge station is on the line between Preston and Blackburn. There is a busy level crossing at the eastern end of the platforms. Note the steel work that is currently necessary to support the signal box.

Passengers from Preston arriving at Bamber Bridge station might find the Lancs & Yorks pub very convenient for a stop off on the way home. Its story is an unusual one. For many years known as the Lancashire and Yorkshire (later shortened to Lancs & Yorks), taking its name from the company that ran the adjacent railway, it closed in 2013. The building was then divided into two retail units and it looked as though it had joined the ever-growing ranks of former pubs forever. However, eight years later in 2021 one of the units reopened as a microbar, taking the old name, and now appears to be thriving with regular live music and other entertainment - good news indeed for those who love the institution of the British pub. This photograph shows it as it was in 1992 when it was a William Younger's house and looked smart: SD5625 : Lancs & Yorks, Bamber Bridge. 20 years later, shortly before closure, it was beginning to look distinctly down at heel: SD5625 : Lancs & Yorks, Bamber Bridge.

The somewhat strange-looking tree sculpture on a patch of dandelion-covered grass constitutes a memorial to John McNamara, a local man who was awarded the Victoria Cross in the First World War. A tree design was chosen because the name Bamber Bridge derives from the Old English 'bēam' and 'brycg', meaning a tree-trunk bridge.