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In and Around the Village of Scarisbrick Today
The Village of Scarisbrick, in West Lancashire, is exceptionally fertile and houses the Hamlets of Bescar & Pinfold. Scarisbrick also boasts a Rainbow Trout Fishery and an 18 Hole Championship Golf Course.
Scarisbrick Parish, the largest in Lancashire, was in early times, an area much avoided by travellers. With its vast tracts of poorly drained peat marshes and the huge lake of Martin Mere, forming its northern boundary, it was difficult terrain to cross.
The original small scattered farmsteads of the parish, now form the basis of today's Hamlets of Barson Green, Bescar, Carr Cross, Drummerdale, Hurlston, Pinfold. and Snape.
Many interesting features of Scarisbrick's past can still be seen today. The Old School House opposite the Morris Dancers (once the Maypole Inn) was built in 1809 and has in the past been a school, a doctor's' house a post office and a shop. It is a listed building and is now divided into two dwellings. The canal is now used for leisure purposes and the Red Lion is the base for the popular Mersey Motor Boat Club. At Heaton's Bridge there remains one of the many defensive pill boxes erected as a precaution against invasion during time Second World War.
The Village of Scarisbrick has no actual village centre. It spreads out along the main road between Ormskirk and Southport.
We would like to thank Scarisbrick Parish Council for the Scarisbrick description above
The MORRIS DANCERS Hotel
544 Southport Road Scarisbrick
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SCARISBRICK HALL
Gardens
GORSUCH HALL
The Ancestral Home of the Gorsuch Family has been recorded since the 13th century and was originally held by Adam, son of Walter de Scarisbrick. Built in the style of Hurlston Hall, the hall was confiscated following the Civil War and was reclaimed by the family on payment of a bounty. Unfortunately the hall was severely damaged by fire in 1790 and the present hall was renovated in 1895
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Hurlston Hall is first mentioned in the Domesday Book over 900 years ago, with the black and white timbered hall gaining the reputation of being the most haunted hall in Lancashire before its demolition earlier this century.
Memories of the hall live on in the golf course which now occupies many of its acres
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2 Heaton Bridge Road Scarisbrick
This building has stood on this site for approaching 200 years and was originally used as offices for a fertiliser company up until 1873 when it was converted to a public house by local businessman Bill Charnock, whose family retained it for close on 100 years. The pub is a traditional brick built property, which has lots of interesting and original internal features including stained glass windows.
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Scarisbrick Arms
2 Black A Moor Lane
Downholland Ormskirk
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