Heath Charnock is a small village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England.

[2] In the Middle Ages Heath Charnock was part of the Penwortham fee held by Randle de Marsey and then by the Ferrers.

The Banastre manor was acquired by John de Harrington and then the first Lord Mounteagle whose family held it until 1574 when it was sold to Thomas Walmsley and Robert Charnock.

[2] Heath Charnock was a township in the Standish ecclesiastical parish in the Leyland hundred in Lancashire.

The township was mostly agricultural, but there were brick works, stone quarries and a cotton mill operating in the early 20th century.

The Manchester, Bolton to Preston railway passes through Heath Charnock, with the nearest station is at Adlington.