Church Street

On the east side a continuous line of terraced stone cottages, broken only by side streets. On the other side Shrigley Court wardened flats, modern brick houses of Vine Street, the redundant St. John’s church within its large churchyard and a dozen 1930s semi-detached houses reaching round the corner towards Lord Street. Church Street ends at the river bridge, not at the end of the straight length of street.

Approach off Palmerston Street at the roundabout. Church Street provides access to the Tullis Russell paper mill resulting in significant numbers of HGVs on the street.

Leads to Chapel Street and Harrop Road, Vine Street, Turner Street and Turner Rise, Lowther Street and Sowcar Way, Nancy View, Ingersley Vale and Dyers Close, Ingersley Crescent and Mill Lane, Lord Street.

Nearest shops – Palmerston Street.

Nearest pubs – The Turners and the Cotton Tree are round the corner in Ingersley Road.

Council Ward – East side, East; west side, Central.

The cottages in Church Street were built piecemeal and date from different times. At least four of them were built in the 19thC as single story properties and then had a second floor added in brick at a later date.

St. John’s church was last used in May 2003. The plan is that it is to be converted into apartments, but we have been waiting a very long time for some action on this!

Shrigley Court is wardened accommodation for the elderly. It was brick built in 1973 , entirely out of character with the area, to replace an area of very poor quality cottages which comprised Union Street, Vine Street and Hope Street, known collectively as The Square. Vine Street was re-built in the 1970s with brick houses.