The coastline from our side to Jenny Brown's point is absolutely stunning.
The coastline from our side to Jenny Brown's point is absolutely stunning.
The coastline from our side to Jenny Brown's point is absolutely stunning.
The coastline from our side to Jenny Brown's Point is absolutely stunning.
Small bays and secluded beaches, and plenty of caves to delight the adventurers young.
This one, red rake at the cove, dates from when miners were looking for iron ore to feed
the hungry latent furnace.
Fossil rich low level cliffs.
Once highly impressive salt marshes, famous for their sheep, but now performing a disappearing
act as the river channel changes.
Need to have the marshes reappear over at grain and jover sands.
Above the cove is cove house, now an abbey field home, and if only walls could speak.
It was once the holiday home of the Reverend Karris Wilson, who was a noted minister and
educationist, with close connections to the famous girls school at Casterton in the Loon
Valley.
It is said that he brought the Bronte sisters to stay here in 1825.
Henry Boddington the Manchester brewer owned the house in 1879, and apart from extending
the property, he also gave considerable amounts of money towards the building of the church
and the school.
It has been said of Silverdale, as of Anside, that it is for the more discerning person.
That impression is probably based upon the large number of impressive Victorian houses
in the village, or perhaps by the presence of artists and writers who lived in the village.
The railway opened up the area, and, as in Anside, wealthy Victorians chose to come here
and set up their second homes.
Many also came to live, and became commuters to Manchester, Kendall, Preston and other
industrial areas.
Money allowed them to build houses mostly with extensive gardens, paddocks or even
meadows attached.
The trees offered secluded glades to walk in, and the coastal views were greatly admired.
Refresh, clean, ozone filled air was, as stated in journals at the time, exceedingly beneficial
to one's disposition.
