Clock Face is a village and area of
St Helens,
England
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, south of the town centre. It is a
ward
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Division or unit
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within the
Metropolitan Borough of St Helens
The Metropolitan Borough of St Helens is a local government district with borough status in Merseyside, North West England. The borough is named after its largest settlement, St Helens but also includes neighbouring towns and villages such as ...
and forms part of the parish of
Bold.
Historically a part of
Lancashire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lancash ...
, the village and area is so named because of a large
clock face that adorned the
Inn
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. The name was also adopted by a
colliery
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in the area. The Clock Face
public house
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, 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 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
Parkside Colliery was a coal mine in Newton-le-Willows, in the historic county of Lancashire, but from 1974, until its closure in 1993, it was in the metropolitan county of Merseyside. It was always described as being in Lancashire, and was the ...
, which was closed in 1992, following a lengthy
NUM-linked sit-in protest, as the last deep mine in the
Lancashire Coalfield
The Lancashire Coalfield in North West England was an important British coalfield. Its coal seams were formed from the vegetation of tropical swampy forests in the Carboniferous period over 300 million years ago.
The Romans may have been the f ...
.
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 at
Clock Face station on Gartons Lane. The area is currently served by
Lea Green railway station
Lea Green railway station is in St Helens, Merseyside, England, three miles south of the town centre near the suburb of Clock Face. The station is on the electrified northern route of the two Liverpool to Manchester lines, east of Liverpool ...
on the northern route of the
Liverpool to Manchester Line
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.
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
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's 140 bus route and
'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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