Green plaque № 11679

Kendal, Halton, England, United Kingdom

WATERSIDE. The pathway known as 'Waterside' appears on Todd's Map of 1787 as a well-instituted roadway between New Road and the Abbot Hall. When the yards between Highgate and the river were developed to accommodate the new industries which arrived with the industrial revolution of the late 18th and

19th centuries, each of the newly formed 'yards' was provided with a set of steps from Waterside to the river. Although these steps have gained, in the 20th century, the name of 'Wool Washing Steps',

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