Hoddlesden Millennium Green, Official Opening Date 2 September 2000

For further information on the Green please click here

Click here for Phase2

WHERE THE RECTANGLE IS SHOWN ON THE GREEN IS THE SITE OF THE NEW SUNDIAL.  FOR DETAILS CLICK HERE

for Bluebell Wood click here

Click on the map to see various features which are highlighted with a hand

Here is a map of our new Millennium Green.  If you click on the various points of the map where you see a hand,you can see photographs of the Green.  Later we will include photographs of what it looked like beforehand and the process of turning it into an amenity of which the Village can justly be proud.

We would like to acknowledge the following organisations who have made our Millennium Green possible:

WM and BW Lloyd Trust, Darwen                         Rotary, Darwen

Lancashire Environmental Action Fund                    Miss J Street, Hoghton

The John Frederick Leach Charity (Darwen)           Watson’s Solicitors, Darwen

Vernon Carus Ltd., Waterside                                 Hindle & Jepson Accountants, Darwen 

Shaw’s of Darwen                                                   Wolstenholme Rink plc, Darwen

Groundwork Blackburn, particularly Aileen Moriarty, Landscape Architect

Jason and Jim from Lancashire Landscapes who did all the hard work

Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council who have granted the land to the Village on a 999 year lease

And local residents, without whose help this project would not have been possible.                             

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