Bilsborrow, Hall c.1960
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B743012
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Built in 1914 of local Longridge stone, this was the home of Sir John Townley and his family from 1947. Stone-framed windows, oak panels and a long drive suggest an earlier period. Well-known in motoring circles, Sir John liked to drive at high speeds. He modernised the large kitchen and closed down a wing, and in his time many important guests were invited, including Harold Macmillan. In May 1973 the Department of the Environment purchased Bilsborrow Hall for use as judges' lodgings but their was an outcry at the price paid: £100,000, not the £45,000 sanctioned the previous year. There is an interesting octagonal church at Bilsborrow, a whitewashed Wesleyan Methodist chapel known as Pothouse Chapel—brown earthenware pots were once made there.
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