Rivington Chase masterplan
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Rivington Chase
Horwich, Bolton
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Horwich, Bolton
Rivington Chase.
Bolton Council’s master development partner for the remaining phases of the 187-acre masterplan, the borough’s largest brownfield regeneration scheme. 20 acres remaining.
- Spine road delivered
- Phase 4 consented and sold to Bellway
- Zone A plots to LNT and McCarthy Stone
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The Loco Works, 1886–1983
1886
The Works opens in November. Horwich, a village of fewer than 4,000 people, begins to transform.
1907
Horwich produces its 1,000th locomotive.
Peak years
More than 5,000 people work at the Works, making Horwich one of the six leading railway towns in Britain. Engineers including Sir Nigel Gresley and Sir Henry Fowler trained here.
1957 and 1962
The last steam locomotive leaves in 1957, and the last diesel in 1962.
23 December 1983
The Works closes after 97 years. Over its life it built more than 1,800 steam locomotives and repaired around 50,000.
The Heritage Core
The heart of a railway town, restored.
Restoring the last surviving workshops of the Loco Works as the community heart of Rivington Chase.
The Heritage CoreDraft notehidden on live site until approved by Bolton Council and partners