{"id":2256,"date":"2017-05-17T12:14:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T12:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2256"},"modified":"2023-01-14T14:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T14:23:59","slug":"flash-lane","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2256","title":{"rendered":"Flash Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"One of the old lanes of Bollington, Flash Lane once called Bench Lane up to 1881, is short narrow and winding, leading up from the Stockport Road to Bollington Road beside the Cock & Pheasant inn. It has a very few houses alongside the road plus driveways to The Mount<\/a> and to a farm. It also provides access to properties originally alongside Stockport Road but which became isolated when the Silk Road was built in the 1990s. One theory as to the reason for the name Flash was that ‘Flashing’, (no not that sort!) was escaping after a robbery. It used to be one of the main routes from Manchester for the robbers to off and go into the hills. When you’d been ‘on the rob’ as it was known in Manchester, you did a flash – you did a runner! Another thought is that there is often water running in the road after rain and this can be known as a flash – as in flash flood.<\/p>\n

Approach off the roundabout at the northern end of the Silk Road<\/a> or Bollington Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nearest shops – Bollington Road<\/a>, Ovenhouse Lane<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nearest pub – Cock & Pheasant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Council Ward – West<\/a>.<\/p>\n