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Picture source: Richard Richmond

The Durham Ox was situated on Park Road. This pub was demolished in 1968 to make way for a ring road.

My gg grandfather Richard Worthington was landlord at The Durham Ox, Preston in 1836. Preston Chronicle entry November 5 1836 "Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the creditors of William Sutton late of Southport within North Mools in the county of Lancaster, innkeeper, an insolvent debtor, who was lately discharged from His Majesty's gaol, the Castle of Lancaster, under and by virtue of the several statutes made and now in force for the relief of insolvent debtors in England will be held at the house of Mr Richard Worthington, the Durham Ox, innkeeper in Preston in the said county on Thursday the twenty fourth day of November instant at eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely ..........................." By 1839 he seems to have moved to The Hesketh Arms, Rufford.

Brian Airey (September 2025)

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