Daisy Nook?is a?country park?in?Failsworth,?Greater Manchester, England. The park runs through the Medlock Valley in an area once called Waterhouses. Waterhouses was one of three ‘houses’ in the?Failsworth?area, the other two being Millhouses (now Clayton Bridge) and Woodhouses.
The name Daisy Nook came from a book by?Benjamin Brierley?titled ‘A day out’ or ‘A Summer Ramble’. Brierley asked his friend Charles Potter, an?Oldham?Artist, to draw an imaginary place called Daisy Nook. Potter came to nearby Waterhouses to complete his drawing – and from then on the area was known as Daisy Nook.
Brierley’s description of Daisy Nook was ‘Two Banks seemed to have opened to receive a group of neat whitewashed cottages and after filling them with happiness, surrounded them with a curtain of trees, to shelter them from the outside world. Most of the cottages have gardens attached, growing flowers and vegetables, and there a small orchard displaying its ripening apples’.