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Originally Posted by Retlaw
Why does every body call it Platts Lodge, that lodge was there long before Platts were even heard of, it was used by all the mills on the factory bottom. Bulloughs was connected to it at on time for fire fighting purposes. Woodnook water bypassed the lodge via that big steel pipe a lot of people have been on about up Priestly Clough, it was installed because the effluent from the mills up Baxenden were contaminating the boilers of the mills on Victoria Street, (Factory Bottom). Those red painted steel piles were for the Railway to Bury built circa 1850.
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Its the name that is officially used on maps etc, there is even an information post in the corner giving information about the area describing the lodge and its use, and it is described as Platts Lodge. I don't know of any other name that is given to this body of water. Woodnook water passes this point in a man made channel it even has cobbles as its base, and a channel has been made from Woodnook water to the lodge with the sluice gate as a control for water levels.