These descriptions' of the place's of interest will be simple thumb nail images, until the trail is properly set up ie. undergrowth cleared away, paths and cycle tracks laid,The sites are just about accessible,but the ground is very rough.
First site; St Augustines' Located on Bolton Road opposite the site of the dismantled Pendlebury train station. known locally, in the early years as, The Miner's Cathederal, due to the impressive apearance both inside and outside, it really is a splendid building, and also because the majority of the congregation were miners. The builder was George Frederick Bodley circa. 1871_1874. The main benifactor in providing the finance, was a local banker Edward Stanley Heywood.