'Part of the charm is that it's quite hard to get to. We're very privileged to live here.'
Tucked away in a picturesque valley between Bury and Ramsbottom, the village of Summerseat is about as sleepy as they come.
"When I first moved in, it wasn't a fashionable place to live. The river used to be a different colour every day because of the pollution. In 1876, the imposing Brooksbottom Mill was built along with rows of terraced houses nearby for the workers. The mill's splendid mid-Victorian stone edifice remains today, although it has since been converted into a block of luxury apartments known as The Spinnings.
In a bid to improve traffic flow on Bass Lane, villagers previously created their own signs urging drivers to pass down the road two cars at a time."If you get more than two vehicles going together and they get stopped, they can't pull into a passing place," said Summerseat resident Roy Crowther.Karen Fitton lives in Plantation View, a pretty row of terraced homes that looks out across Summerseat Park. The row was one of ten built to house workers at the nearby mills.
While he bemoaned a lack of transport links, he said Summerseat's remoteness is part of what makes it so special.
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