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03/10/22:
been
up
here
quite
a
few
times
walking
the
dog.
Free
parking
on
Edenfield
Road,
close
to
Owd
Betts
pub,
postcode:
OL12
7TY.
Walk
directly
up
and
around
following
the
footpaths.
Can
be
muddy
and
wet
in
Autumn/Winter
and
bear
in
mind
if
you
deviate
off
the
path,
it
is
moorland
peat
and
becomes
waterlogged.
Waugh's
Well
was
built
in
commemoration
to
local
poet
Edwin
Waugh
(1817
to
1890),
who
was
born
in
the
nearby
town
of
Rochdale.
It
occupies
a
spot
near
Fo
Edge
Farm,
where
Waugh
spent
a
number
of
months
writing
some
of
his
best
work.
The
well
looks
out
over
Scout
Moor
Reservoir
and
across
towards
Holcombe
Moor.
Edwin
Waugh
(1817–1890)
was
an
English
poet.
The
son
of
a
shoemaker,
Waugh
was
born
in
Rochdale,
Lancashire,
England
and,
after
some
schooling,
was
apprenticed
to
a
printer,
Thomas
Holden,
at
the
age
of
12.
While
still
a
young
man
he
worked
as
a
journeyman
printer,
travelling
all
over
Britain,
but
eventually
returned
to
his
old
job
in
Rochdale.
Waugh
read
eagerly,
and
in
1847
became
assistant
secretary
to
the
Lancashire
Public
School
Association
and
went
to
work
in
Manchester.
In
Manchester
he
started
publishing
descriptions
of
rural
rambles,
and
the
reception
of
his
works
encouraged
him
to
persevere.
By
1860
he
was
able
to
become
a
full-time
writer;
but
in
1881
he
was
in
poor
health
and
was
granted
a
Civil
List
pension
of
£90
p.a.
Waugh
died
at
his
home
in
New
Brighton,
Cheshire,
in
1890
and
was
buried
in
St.
Paul's
churchyard
on
Kersal
Moor.
Waugh's
Well
was
built
in
1866
to
commemorate
him
at
Foe
Edge
Farm,
on
the
moors
above
Edenfield,
Rossendale
where
he
spent
much
time
writing.
Foe
Edge,
was
completely
demolished
by
the
North
West
Water
Authority
in
the
mid-1970s
and
no
trace
remains
of
the
building.
There
is
a
monument
in
Broadfield
Park,
Rochdale
which
commemorates
Margaret
Rebecca
Lahee,
Oliver
Ormerod,
John
Trafford
Clegg
and
Edwin
Waugh.
Waugh
first
attracted
attention
with
sketches
of
Lancashire
life
and
character
in
the
Manchester
Examiner.
His
first
book
Sketches
of
Lancashire
Life
and
Localities
was
published
in
1855
while
he
was
working
as
a
traveller
for
a
Manchester
printing
firm.
He
wrote
also
prose:
Factory
Folk,
Besom
Ben
Stories,
and
The
Chimney
Corner.
His
Lancashire
dialect
songs,
collected
as
Poems
and
Songs
(1859),
brought
him
local
fame.
He
has
been
called
"the
Lancashire
Burns."
His
most
famous
poem
is
"Come
whoam
to
thi
childer
an'
me",
1856.
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