Clock Face, Merseyside

Clock Face is an area of St. Helens, Merseyside, England, 5.6 km (3.5 miles) south of the town centre, situated near Sutton Manor in the district of Sutton, and just north of the M62 motorway. Clock Face forms part of the parish of Bold. It is also a ward of St Helens Council. It is so named because of the large clock face that once graced the area. The Clock Face public house now maintains the area's name.

Clock Face was once served by the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway at Clock Face station on Gartons Lane. The area is currently served by Lea Green railway station on the northern route of the Liverpool to Manchester Line.

The area was an important coal mining village with three collieries in the vicinity. One of these, Sutton Manor Colliery was the last mine in St. Helens to close in 1991. [citeweb|url=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bernard.platt/sutton%20manor%20-%20profile.htm|title=The Lancashire Coalfields: Sutton Manor|work=Bernard Platt|accessdate=18 March|accessyear=2008]

Clock Face Country Park is situated on the site of one of the former collieries. In the late 1990s, the 57 acre site was reclaimed by St Helens Council as a public open space. It contains developing woodlands, meadow areas and a fishing pond leased to a local angling club. The former mineral railway route has been reclaimed as a pathway to Sutton Manor Woodlands. [citeweb|url=http://www.suttonbeauty.org.uk/clockfacepark.html|title=Clock Face Country Park|work=Sutton Beauty|accessdate=18 March|accessyear=2008]

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* [http://www.suttonbeauty.org.uk/ Sutton Beauty] – A photographic appreciation of the Sutton district of St Helens which includes the Clock Face Country Park and Sutton Manor (Colliery) Woodlands