Moses Gate Country Park, part of which is also known as Crompton Lodges, (National Grid Ref: SD 749063) is a 750 acre (300 hectare) site situated at Moses Gate in the Croal and Irwell Valleys 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Bolton town centre on the A6053 road which connects Farnworth to Little Lever.

At Nob End, the Croal joins the Irwell which then continues for about two miles into Clifton Country Park.

The property is now (in 2020) in a neglected state, with a sign offering it for commercial leasing, although the council still expresses an interest in restoring it for use at some point.

[7] The area has seen several uses as an industrial site, at Moses Gate, one of the earliest paper mills in Lancashire was built by the Crompton family in Farnworth.

Over the next decade, the site was cleared and Rock Hall was transformed from a derelict building into the current visitor centre.

[citation needed] Rock Hall was built by Thomas Bonsor Crompton's father John, who was granted the lease in 1805.