Chorlton Water Park
Flooded gravel-pit lake and nature reserve on old manor farmland, ringed by woodland paths.
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This guide to Chorlton Water Park in Manchester follows a skull that is said to refuse every attempt to throw it away, and the Barlow family whose farmland once lay where the lake is now. It reaches back to a Catholic priest born at Barlow Hall in the fifteen-eighties, the dangerous England he served in, and the house that kept his remains. Best heard on the lakeside path, looking out over the water.
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