April 2020
Irchester Country Park
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Summer 2015 Outing
Blisworth Heritage Society © 2020
24 July 2015 Society Annual Outing this year to Irchester Country Park
Meet in the Lower Car Park at 6:30pm Irchester Country Park, Gipsy Lane, Little Irchester, Wellingborough NN29 7DL NB The gates will be locked for the general public at 7pm but they will be unlocked to let us out when we leave!
The park was based around a major Ironstone Quarry in the Wellingbough district called Wembley Pit. Iron dug from here was used to build Sydney Harbour Bridge. Quarrying in the Country Park area stopped in 1941and it is now a haven for Wild Life with 10's of thousands of mature fir trees growing on the characteristic ridged land which was left after the quarrying finished.
There is also a Railway Museum on site, amongst other things, this contains some sections of rail from the original Blisworth - Stoke Bruerne Hill Railway, these were presented by George Freeston.