Great Eccleston, Cartford Lane c.1965
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In the 1950s a new and busy road separated the two villages of Little and Great Eccleston. The Latin words 'parva' and 'magna' for little and great were anciently applied to many Fylde villages (Carleton, Bispham, Thornton and Poulton are all examples). Cartford Lane led to one of the six fords across the River Wyre. The smithy stood there, and in Butts Lane was a tithe barn and turf dales at what was then called West End. Turf dales were parts of the old mosses where sods were sliced up for peat, to be used as fuel. About the size of an A4 paper sheet, the turf was neatly cut, stacked and dried, and when ready for burning was taken round to cottages for sale.
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