It has outstanding views, does food but has changed hands a good few times
There was another pub a little distance away, but now a nursery.
Ashworth reservoir across the road.was very low,surprisingly, when we went ,just a bit of fresh( VERY) fresh air.
I was hoping to be taken to Bleakholt ,not as an inmate you understand but to find a little dog but son drove straight past! Wonder why?
I can’t remember the name of the other pub.
So remote,but the quickest way to Rochdale, avoiding traffic.
I imagine the pub served the rural community of years ago, shepherds etc , but there were also some very small coal mines, and a quarry.
Somewhere not far away is Edwin Waugh’s grave with a spring and memorial stone .
A Lancashire poet along with Ben Brierly,Samuel Laycock.
The rain comes across like stair rods, and stunted trees are bent to survive the strong winds with nothing to stop them blowing between Rochdale and Ramsbottom !
Robert Peel’s tower ,erected in thanks for his repeal of the iniquitous Corn Laws ,1843, on the opposite Rt. side ,Holcombe Hill.
Manchester on the very far horizon.
Wild , with its own special attraction - not just the pub either!
I won ‘t sleep now!
What was the other pub called.?
Viktoria.
