Ashton In Makerfield, Greater Manchester

Flower Delivery to Aston-in-Makerfield with Clare Florist

Ashton-in-M

akerfield is a town in Greater Manchester. Long known as the place where locks and hinges were manufactured, Ashton’s history also includes a stint as a coal mining district due to it sitting on the Lancashire Coalfield. Incidentally, the town was also historically part of Lancashire but now belongs to the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester.

Haydock, a village between Liverpool and Manchester, used to form a chapelry with Ashton but they were split in 1845.

History

Ashton-in-Makerfield is far from being the only place bearing the name “Ashton” in Manchester. The name is derived from the Old English that means “farmstead where the ash trees grow.” Other towns with Ashton in their name include the market town of Ashton-under-Lyne in Tameside and Ashton upon Mersey in Trafford.
Records show that the town’s name was listed as Eston in 1212 with the suffix “in-Makersfield” added later on. The suffix is believed to have been the name of an old district to which Ashton belonged. Also, the name Makersfield is derived from the Celtic for wall or ruin as well as the Old English word feld, which means “open land.”
Ashton has a coal mining history owing to its being part of the St Helens Area of the South Lancashire Coalfield, which occupied around 60 square miles, reaching to within eight miles of Liverpool. There were 13 collieries in the area in 1867, some of them like Garswood Hall and Park Colliery remained active until the 1950s.
A few of the coal miners from the area were able to make a mark in the history of modern Britain. Stephen Walsh and William Kenealy were members of the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers. Joe Gormley served as president of the National Union of Mineworkers in the 70s and 80s.

The 19th century saw Ashton become famous for manufacturing hinges, locks, files, and nails in addition to having many collieries, cotton mills, and potteries.

Attractions

The market square off Garswood Street hosts a market every Tuesday and Saturday and might be the place where you can spot some Ashton-in-Makersfield flowers. You may have to travel quite a bit in case you can’t find any more flowers in Ashton-in-Makersfield to see: one of the best gardens is located a little over 30 minutes away, and that’s Fletcher Moss Park. Heaton Park is another green space worth seeing that is also around half an hour away from Ashton.

Football fans have several choices during the Premier League season as Manchester is home to two football clubs: Manchester City and Manchester United, each of them with stadiums a little over 30 minutes away from Ashton.

Travelling to places beyond Ashton is made convenient thanks to two stations: Bryn railway station and Garswood railway station, both of which are located between the Wigan North Western railway station and the Liverpool Lime Street railway station. Of the two, Bryn is the closest to Ashton.

We are able to send flowers to Ashton-in-Makersfield for anniversaries, birthdays, Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, and many other special occasions. All you have to do is pick the perfect bouquet to give to a friend or family member through our next-day delivery service. So if you’d like to order flowers for delivery to Ashton-in-Makersfield, you know who to get in touch with!

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