Tarleton, St Mary's Church 1952
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More about this scene
Few people think of Tarleton as a port, but in the 15th century ships from here sailed to small ports along the Lancashire coast and even to Europe. Built in 1717, St Mary's was troubled with flooding from the River Douglas, and Holy Trinity church, consecrated in 1888, is more centrally convenient. Antiquity shows in the datestone (1660) of the Ram's Head, a coaching inn on the Ormskirk to Preston road. Tarleton's mossland was drained in order to produce crops. At Tarleton Lock the river Douglas meets the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Harry Mayor was lock keeper here for forty-seven years.
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