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Further to this question re the Alma Inn.

If you read that tripe by Ainsworth in his Old Home Steads he contradicts himself.
First he says he knew nothing about Magpie Hall,
till he met an old Baxenden resident.
Then goes on to say the buildings were demolished to make way for Manchester Rd, built by Blind Jack in 1791/2
That resident must have been bluudy old, 115 years after it was supposed to have been demolished.
Ainsworth wrote that tripe in 1928, in one sentence he says it was where the Alma Inn was, then in another sentence he says it was at Lane Ends, Lane Ends is a good 500 yards North of the Alma.

Magpie Hall is shown in the 1841/51/61/71/ census returns, a good 150 year after Ainsworth says it was demolished.
Don't blindly accept what ainsworth says, look at maps and census, and his stuff can be torn to shreds. He was a reporter for the Accy Observer their maxim as always, why let the truth get in the way of a good story.

In those days very few pepole had the knowledge to refute his statements, & the census details were not yet avalaible.

From the 1848 ordnance survey, the area where the Alma was built, was called Robin Field Nook.

The site of Magpie Hall is now occupied by The Haworth Art Gallery.

Retlaw.