 The Runcorn Poor Law Workhouse once stood on a site at the corner of Barkers Hollow Road and Northwich Road (A533) now occupied by three bungalows.The original workhouse was built between 1855 and 1857 for 280 inmates.The workhouse infirmary was enlarged in 1881–82, with further extensions in 1895 and a nurses' home in 1906.