The fairytale village frozen in time for 500 years with no road signs or aerials
23.07.2023 - 06:47
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Drive or stroll into the beautiful village of Downham in Lancashire and the first thing that hits you is the unspoilt views of rolling countryside. The next thing you might notice is that the pretty stone cottages along the winding lane fail to feature modern details like TV aerials, power lines or satellite dishes.
There are no road signs or markings here, and indeed this pretty village is pretty much frozen in time from centuries ago. That's all down to it being one of the rare villages in the UK which has remained under the ownership of the same ancestral family for the past 500 years.
Downham is often hailed as the most beautiful village in Lancashire - and regularly welcomes visitors to walk around its pretty lanes, next to the bubbling brook, and sample the local ice cream shop or the village pub. This weekend the family who own the village - the Asshetons - will throw open the gardens of the ancestral Downham Hall for visitors to book tours and see its beauty too.
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Next weekend, on July 30, there will be a further open gardens charity event with tickets available for £5 per person to explore. It has been the Assheton family's continuing wish that the village - and the beautiful 3,000 acres of rolling countryside they own that surround it - remains as preserved in time as possible.
In recent decades that means insisting modern advances are firmly kept out of sight in the hamlet, and, seeing as they own all the properties here, they've been able to ensure it remains that way. Naturally, there is electricity in the houses here though - but power lines are discreetly threaded underneath the unmarked roads here to preserve
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