Foul Lane
Introduction
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Foul Lane
Image: © Oliver Dixon Taken: 22 Oct 2024
In the 1950s, Foul Lane was a cinder road alongside a railway embankment and was the closest to home in Scarisbrick New Road that could remotely be called a country walk. Protyre, the tyre depot to the left, stands on the site of the former Kew Gardens station (closed 1938). A railway embankment, built for the Liverpool, Southport and Preston railway ran parallel to Foul Lane through what is now the B and Q warehouse on the Meols Cop Retail Park. The railway was closed for passengers in 1938, although the track was not removed until 1964 after which the embankment was removed and all traces of it obliterated.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.63255
Longitude
-2.968561