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Alston Hall is a 19th-century
Alston Hall is a 19th-century Victorian
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style country mansion located in Longridge
Longridge is a market town and civil parish in the borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England. It is situated north-east of the city of Preston, at the western end of Longridge Fell, a long ridge above the River Ribble. Its nearest neigh ...
(near Preston
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) in Lancashire
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, England
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. It is not to be confused with the 15th-century Alston Old Hall nearby.
History
Alston Hall, designed by the architect Alfred Darbyshire, was built c.1876 for John Mercer, a Newton-le-Willows colliery owner. It passed down to his grand-daughter, who was a nun, and was then sold to the Eccles cotton manufacturing family who sold it in turn to William Birtwistle, another wealthy cotton industrialist. In 1949 the Birtwistles sold most of the land to the Church Commissioners and the hall itself, together with the remaining three acres of land, to Preston Borough Council as a Day Continuation College. In 1974 it was purchased by Lancashire County Council and converted to a residential training centre. Alston Hall is no longer owned and operated by Lancashire Adult Learning. It is now owned by a private individual as a family home. The hall is recorded in theNational Heritage List for England
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as a designated Grade II listed building
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.
See also
* Listed buildings in Longridge *Lancashire College
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*The Adult College, Lancaster
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The college was established in 1975, and moved to a site on Quarry Road overlooking the Lancaster Canal in 1990. The Adult College was n ...
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