09/09/2024
The farmhouse in the middle of the M62 motorway.
There is an urban myth that when the construction workers building the M62 came knocking, the owner of Stott Hall Farm refused to move. In retaliation, the workers simply built the motorway around the farmhouse, leaving it stranded in the middle!
This however couldn’t be further from the truth. In reality, when engineers surveyed for this section of the motorway between 1961 and 1963, a geological fault was identified close to the farm.
As a result the motorway had to be split into separate carriageways, with each embankment being anchored into the underlying sandstone bedrock.
