It is recorded that one of their number was flogged for insubordination in the yard of The Red Lion at Four Lane Ends.Īt the time of the later Jacobite rebellion in 1745, when the dispirited army of Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, decided to retreat to Scotland, they marched along Manchester Road, in a surprisingly orderly fashion it seems. We know, for example, that Jacobite soldiers, fleeing from their defeat at Preston in 1715 and hoping to find shelter with sympathisers in Manchester, made their way along it. In any event, we may be sure that the road has been the scene of great events in the past. However if, as has been suggested, the Romans had an encampment at Blackrod (a distinct possibility) then their cavalry would have certainly followed the same line of today’s heavy traffic as they advanced from their station at Manchester. A more detailed account of the historical section is available at Westhoughton Library.Īlthough some believe this to have been a Roman Road, it is unlikely to have been more than a trackway in those far off days.
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