Waughs Well

Waugh’s Well is located at the Rossendale hills above Edenfield inside the county of Lancashire. It was built in 1866 to commemorate the poet and author Edwin Waugh. He turned into born the son of a shoe maker in Rochdale and entered employment on the age of ten running for a local bookseller. He educated himself and subsequently have become assistant secretary to the Lancashire Public Schools Association. It wasn’t till he became in his 40s that he took up writing and lecturing for a residing and he is fondly remembered for all his difficult paintings to hold alive the vintage Lancashire dialect.

Close to the nicely are the ruins of Foe Edge Farm. Edwin Waugh payed several visits to the farm and is thought to have composed some of his best works even as staying there. Dominating the nearby landscape spectacularly at Edenfield with a quite stroll at Dearden Clough and Plunge Mill ruins; head up Michael Wife Lane, off the A680, signal-posted Rochdale. For an lively walk, head as much as the Scout Moor wind farm and Waugh’s Well on the clean path from Owd Betts pub on the A680. Waugh’s Well is a hillside memorial to Lancashire dialect writer and poet Edwin Waugh.