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Town of Lowton, The Bulls Head
Closed pub at the junction of Southworth and Golborne Dale Roads; as seen looking towards Newton.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 18 Oct 2009
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Junction of A572/A573, Lowton
This was taken at the junction of Southworth Road (A572) and Golborne Dale Road/Parkside Road (A573), Lowton. The pub on the right is the Bulls Head.
Image: © andy
Taken: 2 Aug 2005
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Old Boundary Marker by the A572, Southworth Road, Town of Lowton
Parish Boundary Marker by the A572, in parish of Golborne (Wigan District), Town of Lowton, Southworth Road, opposite junction with Golborne Dale Road on the verge.
Surveyed
Milestone Society National ID: LA_BOSH12pb.
Image: © Milestone Society
Taken: Unknown
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Town of Lowton, boundary stone
Looking towards Wargrave, at the junction of A572 & A573; leaning boundary stone
marking the boundaries of Lowton & Newton, now Wigan & St Helens. The stone is of a typical Lancashire County Council pattern.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 1 Sep 2009
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Dog-leg junction
The A573 travels right to left between Wigan and Warrington, meeting the A572 Lowton - Newton road at the Wigan/ St Helens boundary. Note the new boundary sign, depicting the Earlestown Viaduct, which carried the Liverpool-Manchester Railway (the first purpose-built passenger railway in the world) over the Sankey Brook Navigation (England's first true canal of the Industrial Revolution).
Image: © David Long
Taken: 2 Jan 2009
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Newton Road looking west
Image: © Colin Pyle
Taken: 6 Jun 2012
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Old Milestone by the A573, Parkside Road, Newton le Willows Parish
Carved stone post by the A573, in parish of NEWTON LE WILLOWS (ST HELENS District), Parkside Road, Town of Lowton, 30m South of junction with Southwold Road, on West side of road in undergrowth. Lancs CC stone triangle, erected by the County Council in the 19th/20th century.
Inscription reads:- : WIGAN / 7 MILES. : : NEWTON : : WARRINGTON / 5 MILES. :
Milestone Society National ID: LA_WGWA07.
Image: © J Higgins
Taken: 1 Sep 2008
0.03 miles
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The Bull's Head, junction of the A573 and the A572
Image: © David Long
Taken: 2 Jan 2009
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The A572 on the edge of Newton-le-Willows
The M6 crosses in the distance, the A573 goes off to Warrington on the left.
Image: © David Long
Taken: 2 Jan 2009
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Town of Lowton, railway junction
To the left, the line to Manchester; to the right, to Liverpool.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 18 Oct 2009
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