TODAY it is sandwiched between a school, leisure centre and houses.
But the eagle-eyed can still see one of Warrington's few surviving medieval buildings.
Barrow Old Hall stood in Great Sankey and its name is still reflected in the area.
Few of the town’s medieval buildings survived the Civil War and more recent twentieth-century housing and urban development which steadily expanded across Warrington’s farmland.
However, Barrow Old Hall, first recorded in 1313, is a partial survivor of this period, remaining as a moated site in the angle between Billington Close and Barrow Hall Lane, next to the Great Sankey High School.
The hall fell into disrepair and was demolished in the early 1920s, but the moat was cleaned and restored and the site is still there and can be visited today.
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