White Coppice

White Coppice
White Coppice
	White Coppice Cricket Ground
	White Coppice Shown within Chorley Borough White Coppice Location within Lancashire
OS grid reference	SD616190
Civil parish	Anglezarke;
District	Chorley;
Shire county	Lancashire;
Region	North West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CHORLEY
Postcode district	PR6
Dialling code	01257
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Chorley;

White Coppice is a hamlet near Chorley, Lancashire, England. It was the most populated part of the township of Anglezarke in the 19th century. Close to the settlement in the early 19th century were quarries and small coal mines. The hamlet lies to the north of Anglezarke Reservoir in the Rivington reservoir chain built to provide water for Liverpool in the mid 19th century.[1][2] To the south west is a hill known as Healey Nab.

White Coppice had a cotton mill at the start of the Industrial Revolution. Its mill lodge provided water for a steam engine, and before that the mill was powered by a waterwheel on the Black Brook. Around 1900 the mill was owned by Alfred Ephraim Eccles, a supporter of the Temperance movement.[3]

Notable residents

Looking towards the ubiquitous cricket pitch across The Goit

Looking towards Great Hill, this view of Dean Black Brook clearly shows evidence of the area's mining past

Walter Haworth was born here on 19 March 1883 and won a Nobel Prize in chemistry.[4]
Sir Henry Tate, 1st Baronet was born on 11 March 1819 in White Coppice. He was an English sugar merchant and philanthropist, noted for establishing the Tate Gallery, London.

Cricket

Cricket is played at a ground in the hamlet. The 1st and 2nd XI cricket teams play in the Moore and Smalley Palace Shield.[5]

The BBC Children's television show Sloggers was filmed at the cricket ground in 1994.[6]

References

Rivington Reservoirs, Pastscape, retrieved 17 June 2010
Rivington Reservoirs (main scheme), Engineering Timelines, archived from the original on 23 February 2012, retrieved 16 December 2010
White Coppice walk, Lancashire Telegraph, retrieved 16 December 2010
Bircumshaw, L. L.; Horrocks, Sally M., "Haworth, Sir (Walter) Norman (1883–1950)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, retrieved 16 December 2010
White Coppice Cricket, White Coppice play cricket, archived from the original on 15 July 2011, retrieved 22 December 2010
The Sloggers, Slogthwaite, Talk Photography, retrieved 29 January 2023

External links

White Coppice

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[Past-1] Rivington Reservoirs, Pastscape, retrieved 17 June 2010

[ET-2] Rivington Reservoirs (main scheme), Engineering Timelines, archived from the original on 23 February 2012, retrieved 16 December 2010

[Walk-3] White Coppice walk, Lancashire Telegraph, retrieved 16 December 2010

[odnb-4] Bircumshaw, L. L.; Horrocks, Sally M., "Haworth, Sir (Walter) Norman (1883–1950)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, retrieved 16 December 2010

[5] White Coppice Cricket, White Coppice play cricket, archived from the original on 15 July 2011, retrieved 22 December 2010

[Coppice-6] The Sloggers, Slogthwaite, Talk Photography, retrieved 29 January 2023