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This remarkable town has a
history dating back to at least 55BC when ancient
Celts created a burial mound at Castle Hill.
It was also here, at the opening of the
Liverpool-Manchester railway in 1830, that the
local, MP William Huskisson, died after being hit
by George Stephenson’s ‘Rocket’, an event marked
by a memorial near Newton’s Bull's Head Hotel.
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Newton-le-Willows - Photo:
Andy
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Sankey Viaduct - Photo:
Stephen Craven
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The politician had tried to
cross the tracks to speak to another dignitary,
the Duke of Wellington.
The oldest canal in England, the St Helens Canal
(originally known as the Sankey Brook Navigation),
passes through the suburb of Earlestown and
carries the railway on the dramatic Sankey
Viaduct, otherwise called ‘the Nine Arches’. |
