Barrow Nook
CountryEngland
Static image nameBarrow Nook - geograph.org.uk - 100528.jpg
Coordinates53.518°N 2.836°W
Civil parishBickerstaffe
Shire districtWest Lancashire
Shire countyLancashire
RegionNorth West England
Constituency westminsterWest Lancashire
Post townORMSKIRK
Postcode districtL39
Postcode areaL
Dial code01695
Os grid referenceSD445027

Barrow Nook is a small rural hamlet on the fringes of Bickerstaffe in the county of Lancashire, England.[1][2]

Stone quarried from Barrow Nook was used to build the church and school at Bickerstaffe in the early 1840s.

Barrow Nook Hall was the former home of Richard John Seddon, until he emigrated in 1866. He later became Prime Minister of New Zealand.

References

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 108 Liverpool (Southport & Wigan)'. Ordnance Survey. 2010. ISBN 9780319228388.
  2. ^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.