Sweeping chimneys in Worsley
Worsley village is unlike anywhere else we cover. Built up around the Bridgewater Canal and the Duke of Bridgewater’s estate, the old village is a conservation area full of black-and-white timbered property — some genuinely old, much of it Victorian estate building in the same style. The chimneys that go with it are tall, decorative and often serve several flues, and a fair number have never been lined.
Property like this wants a sweep who will take the time to work out what is actually up there rather than putting the same rods up every chimney. Ornate stacks and old flues need care, and if the building is listed or in the conservation area there may be limits on what can be fitted to it.
Around the village the picture changes quickly. Boothstown, Ellenbrook, Roe Green and Walkden bring interwar and post-war semis and newer estate housing, where the common job is a fireplace reopened during a renovation, or a woodburner fitted into a chimney built for an open fire.