The correct name hereabouts is Brockholes Brow – not that Charlie refers to it – but he does tell us about Samlesbury Church just a half mile distant.  The steep hill up from the Brockholes Bridge spanning the River Ribble, up into the outskirts of Preston and forming the ‘New’ road connecting Blackburn and Preston and named Preston New Road, had obviously not been built at the time Charlie is writing.

Why the name of this famous road access to Preston was called Halfpenny Brow I don’t know, but it could have been the toll price, as I imagine there would have been a ferry of sorts across the Ribble long before the Bridge was built.