Nook Farm

As you approach Bretherton Village on Carr House Lane, having just left the main A59 Preston to Liverpool road, you come across Nook Farm a private property and historic agricultural site.

The original agricultural farm setting includes historic brick structures, notably featuring a spacious 5,500 sq ft barn conversion known as Nook Farm Barn.

Bretherton is a small village and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, England, situated to the south west of Leyland and east of Tarleton.

The photograph above shows you approaching Bretherton Village on Carr House Lane, having just past Nook Farm, at the junction you turn left down South Road (B5247) to Bretherton Village.

CLICK HERE to go to our Bretherton War Memorial page to read more information and see more images.

He was not the first astronomer to realise the two planets’ orbits are tipped but other astronomers had not correctly calculated a Transit would happen in that year. Since then, Transits have occurred in 1761 and 1769, in 1874 and 1882, as well as in 2004 and 2012.

Horrocks lodged at Carr House in Bretherton as a tutor for the wealthy Stones family. It was from an upstairs room in this Jacobean manor house that he made the historic first recorded observation of the Transit of Venus in November 1639.

Bretherton Methodist Chapel (South Road), was originally erected in 1824 as an Independent Methodist Chapel. It was subsequently rebuilt in 1836 and again in 1883.

The photograph below shows the original stone laid by Ellen Dandy, of the deeply rooted local Dandy family of the Croston, Tarleton, and Bretherton areas, when the Chapel was rebuilt in July 1883. The building is now a private residential property.

The Old Bakery, located at 219 South Road in Bretherton, was a much-loved, highly-rated village bakery and cafe known for its freshly baked meat and potato pies, breads, savory cobs, and homemade cakes. The building is now a private residential traditional style semi-detached property.

The Ebenezer Chapel as it was then known was first opened for public worship on June 1st 1819. The Revd W Roby from Manchester preached in the morning, the Revd A Steill from Wigan in afternoon & Rev G Greatbatch in the evening.

CLICK HERE to go to our Bretherton Congregational Church page to read more information and see more images.

St John the Baptist Church is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Chorley, the archdeaconry of Blackburn and the diocese of Blackburn.

CLICK HERE to go to our St John The Baptist Church page to read more information and see more images.

Bretherton Endowed Church of England Primary School is a state-funded voluntary aided school on South Road Bretherton. The school’s history is deeply intertwined with its village roots and the Church of England.

As a “free school” in its earliest days, its purpose was to provide foundational education to local children. This was made possible through an endowment set up by Fletcher, a local boy who made his fortune as a merchant in London before giving back to his native community. Today, the Bretherton Endowed School Foundation continues to support the institution.

(Photographed on Friday 12th June 2026)