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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson
I have always had the view that the Black Dog is at the top of Union Road, and so anything on that side of the lamp would be 'above', whereas on the railway station side it would be 'below'. The house numbers run 'up' from the Church boundary on Union Rd. That settles it. -nowt to do wi' bein' gawmless.
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Sorry, Bob - but I'm not convinced. Union Road starts from the Church boundary with Market St at which point it runs in a southerly direction, gradually turning west until at Union Rd it runs roughly east-west until at Stanhill the same road runs in a North-West direction (towards Blackburn). I don't know therefore, what is above and what is below.
The Black Dog is some distance away from the lamp and is far closer to the old, alternative route between Ossy/Stanhill and Church (parts of that route still being a public footpath) so if you're now suggesting that the original site of the lamp was by the Dog then that complicates things even further.