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An autumn walk through the Clough.

The path on this bridge over the brook leads to Oak Bank Avenue. The bridge piers and abutments appear to have masonry that is too grand for this setting.

View from a higher footbridge in the clough on a path from Glen Avenue

A street of modern housing.

Taken from a footbridge over the top. The dense foliage at this time of year (June) makes it difficult to get a proper perspective.

My Tuesday walking group into the home straight - heading towards the boating lake and a welcome cup of tea.

HOUGH HALL was lived in by a family named Halgh or Hough. The last of the line, Captain Robert Hough, took the King's side in the Civil War and had his estate sequestered. It was purchased in 1685 by James Lightbowne, and soon afterwards passed to the Minshulls of Chorlton. In or soon after 1774 it was purchased by Samuel Taylor, by whose representative it was sold about 1880 to the late Robert Ward. The hall has been a Grade II listed building since 1974. Hough Hall is a timber and plaster house two storeys high standing on the south side of Moston Lane a little way back from the road. The building has been much restored and the interior is wholly modernized, but the outside retains a good deal of its ancient appearance, though all the windows are new and some of its original features have been lost. The house appears to belong to the end of the 16th or beginning of the 17th century, but has no date or inscription to confirm this. Currently it appears to be derelict.

HOUGH HALL was lived in by a family named Halgh or Hough. The last of the line, Captain Robert Hough, took the King's side in the Civil War and had his estate sequestered. It was purchased in 1685 by James Lightbowne, and soon afterwards passed to the Minshulls of Chorlton. In or soon after 1774 it was purchased by Samuel Taylor, by whose representative it was sold about 1880 to the late Robert Ward. The hall has been a Grade II listed building since 1974. Hough Hall is a timber and plaster house two storeys high standing on the south side of Moston Lane a little way back from the road. The building has been much restored and the interior is wholly modernized, but the outside retains a good deal of its ancient appearance, though all the windows are new and some of its original features have been lost. The house appears to belong to the end of the 16th or beginning of the 17th century, but has no date or inscription to confirm this. Currently it appears to be derelict.

"The only physical reminder of Moston's pre-industrial past". Late C16th or early C17th. Grade II listed. It was in a pretty parlous state when this photo was taken and subsequently deteriorated markedly. Its purchase in 2020 (for the bargain price of £165,000) may herald a revival.