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White Nancy, Bollington

by Alec and Val Scaresbrook

To see White Nancy, and the tremendous view from Kerridge Hill, walk (no cycling permitted) along the public footpath that leads out of the Redway Tavern car park and follow it uphill.


White Nancy was a functional folly, designed to be used as a summerhouse and containing a circular stone table and stone benches. Once open-sided, it has now been blocked up to curb vandalism. This 20ft (6m) high white-painted dome stands 918ft (280m) above sea level and was built in 1817 to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo. Quite why it should be called White Nancy is a mystery and various theories have been put forward. Two of the most feasible are that it was named either after a lady of the Gaskell family (who paid for the monument) or after the leading horse of the team of eight that dragged the table up the hill. See the map below


Find this place marked in the centre of this map.

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