" The Place Of The Stag"

The area known as Stacksteads stretches from the Thrutch Gorge just East of Waterfoot to a mile before Bacup.  The name is thought to mean the place of the Stag or stack. At the time of Queen Victoria's coronation Stacksteads was just a village without one place of worship available. In  1876 the district of Bacup was extended to include Stacksteads.

The only thing left of the old Fernhill House and it's grounds  is the gate house. Fernhill  housing estate now stands on the land that was one a great house and Military hospital during the Great War of 1914-1919. The house was demolished in  1920 and the area developed as the Fernhill estate.

Heath Hill House was home to the Munn family, built between 1834 and 1838. It is said that the favourite pastime of  the Munn family was hunting and shooting of which they did a lot of,  on the moors surrounding their home which included the fields of Folly Clough known today as Booth Road.

Another of the oldest inhabited parts of the forest of Rossendale was the area known as Brandwood. Lying between Tunstead and Cowpe  some of the earliest residents of the Brandwood area came from the village of Ashworth near Rochdale.

Stacksteads Railway Station