Introduction
Callands is located in north-west Warrington across the Sankey (St Helens) Canal from Dallam alongside Sankey Valley Park and comes under the parish of Burtonwood and Westbrook.
The estate is built on farmland and named after Callands Farm; the farmhouse still stands.
View to Callands from Westbrook with Callands Farm house on the right
The area was once part of the hunting ground of King Henry I. Big Moss Wood and Little Moss Wood are two green areas which are part of the district. The street names have a Welsh theme – St David’s Drive, Harlech Close, Wrexham Close, Holyhead Close, etc.
Callands was built during the new town boom of the 1980s. It features the Hoop and Mallet pub, Callands Primary School, a community centre, a retirement home (Woodleigh) and Kidsunlimited Nursery. Like many parts of outer Warrington, farms originally covered the land. Callands farmhouse still stands on the edge of the district.
Play area of North Park Road
In 1993 and 1994, Granada TV filmed a children’s drama in the area called “Three Seven Eleven”, set in the fictional Barton Wood Primary School (a name based on the nearby district name of Burtonwood). Exterior scenes were filmed around the streets of Callands, and Callands Primary School was the location of the school scenes, but internal filming was done on a set based on the school back at Granada’s Manchester studios. The series was written by Bernard Ashley, Colin Ashley and Marvin Close.
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