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LIONS BRIDGE - 1724

15/5/2015

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Stone lion photographed at Haigh Hall Country Park near Wigan on 10 May 2015. 

The lion was once one of six stone lions from a bridge on the estate of Atherton Hall in nearby Leigh.  

The bridge was built in 1724 and was known locally as Lions Bridge due to the carved stone lions which sat on pedestals along its length, two lions were located at each end with two in the middle.

It had three arches and spanned a crescent shaped lake which was approximately three quarters of a mile long, the lake dried up in the 19th Century and the bridge was demolished in 1905.
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Another of the lions close to the location of the original bridge, this has been severely damaged and is missing its head. Interestingly it appears that the lions were made in two sections as some ironwork is visible on the upper body of this one where the head would have been connected to the body.
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Some nice pieces of stone which were originally part of the bridge located close to the lion.
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David Sykes link
28/6/2015 01:32:12 pm

Hope you are aware that the lion at Haigh Hall is not from lions bridge. The actual lions are at Tarleton. Contact us for verification. Regards Dave Sykes, Chair, Friends of Lilford Park. Tel 07957 752820

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Mad Richard
10/8/2017 12:27:17 pm

The Lion at Haigh Hall was originally situated at the Wigan Gasworks.

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John link
2/3/2018 03:42:10 pm

Just to clarify that the lions in the photos are totally different. There are only three of the six stone lions from Atherton Hall known to still exist. Two are at Tarleton and in a poor/ weathered state and the other is still at the site of Atherton Hall. The ones in Tarleton were removed from Atherton’s bridge in 1826 when the Hall was demolished. They were sent as a compensation to Elizabeth Legh Keck (nee Atherton) as she wanted to save parts of the house to be put into the renovated Bank Hall. The house was demolished before the letter got there so she had two lions from the Bridge and they remained at Bank Hall until the estates moved their offices to a Tarleton in the early 1970s.

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    My interest in ships and the sea started back in 2006 when I worked for a couple of years  on the banks of the River Mersey. I have since been on a couple of cruises around the Med and in the Far East and have started to take more interest in researching and photographing some of the ships and other vessels seen on my travels.

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