Clock Face is a village and area of
St Helens,
England, south of the town centre. It is a
ward within the
Metropolitan Borough of St Helens and forms part of the parish of
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Historically a part of
Lancashire, the village and area is so named because of a large
clock face
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that adorned the
Inn. The name was also adopted by a
colliery in the area. The Clock Face
public house, although not the original building, is built close to the original location and maintains the naming tradition.
Sport
Clock Face is home to the amateur rugby league side Clock Face Miners, originally established in 1921 as 'Clock Face Rangers'. The club colours are yellow and blue.
Industry
The area was an important
coal mining
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village with three collieries in the vicinity, including Clock Face Colliery (which was closed in 1966), Sutton Manor Colliery (which was closed in 1991), and
Parkside Colliery, which was closed in 1992, following a lengthy
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-linked sit-in protest, as the last deep mine in the
Lancashire Coalfield.
Clock Face Country Park is situated on the site of one of the former collieries. In the late 1990s, the site was reclaimed by St Helens Council as a public open space. It contains developing woodlands, meadow areas and a fishing pond leased to a local angling club. The former mineral railway route has been reclaimed as a pathway to Sutton Manor Woodlands.
Transportation
Clock Face was once served by the
St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway
St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway was an early railway line owned by a company of the same name in Lancashire, England, which opened in 1833. It was later known as St Helens Railway. It ran originally from the town of St Helens to the area whi ...
at
Clock Face station on Gartons Lane. The area is currently served by
Lea Green railway station on the northern route of the
Liverpool to Manchester Line.
Arriva North West operate bus services in Clock Face, routes 32/32A, 30 and 33 link the area to St Helens Hospital and the Town Centre. Other bus companies serving the area include
Merseytravel's 140 bus route and
Halton Transport's 17/17B bus routes. Arriva have since taken over some 17 bus routes to Widnes as part of a scheme to boost travel between both Widnes and St Helens.
References
External links
Sutton Beauty– A photographic appreciation of the Sutton district of St Helens which includes the Clock Face Country Park and Sutton Manor (Colliery) Woodlands
St Helens, Merseyside
Towns and villages in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens
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