Hall I’ th’ Wood

Crompton Way, 

Bolton

Hall I’th’ Wood is famous as a shrine to the industrial revolution, the place where Samuel Crompton invented his spinning mule in 1779, and a couple of rooms are devoted to his work. But the hall was largely built in Elizabethan times by the Brownlow family as a timber framed manor house with a main block and cross wing, rather like a small scale version of Speke Hall. The house was extended in 1648 by Alexander Norris, a successful parliamentary official, who built the sone wing with a two storey porch and two storey bay window. The ceilings and the panelling in the rooms were brought in from elsewhere when the house was restored around 1900 by Lord Leverhulme, but the staircase with it’s fine turned balusters is original to the house.

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Tel: 01204 301159