The Traveller's Rest is a shelter built into the front wall of Hoghton School, directly opposite the entrance to Hoghton Church. It has a bench and traces of what seems to have been a drinking fountain. Over the headstone we see the words "Traveller's Rest" and the initials C de H for Charles de Hoghton and the year 1877. I've rested there many a time after walking up the hill!
I originally posted this photo in 2012. Taken by my grandfather, Thomas Miller-Crook, in 1932, it shows my Grandmother, Mabel (née Windle) with her two children sitting in the Traveller's Rest. My Uncle Herbert would be around seven year's old, sitting next to Mabel and my father Eric, aged, 3, standing to the right on the pavement. This would be the original stone seat. When the roadway was raised a wooden platform was placed on the stone seat to compensate the height.
They would walk on Sunday mornings from their home at 5 Bell Villas, Gib Lane, to Riley Green, Horrobin Fold cottage, to visit their Aunty Rachel Miller-Crook, who lived there alone.
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