A guide for families in Burscough who have started to wonder whether someone they love could benefit from a little extra help at home. Written honestly, without pressure, from experience.
The Leeds–Liverpool Canal made Burscough. The wharf at Burscough Bridge was once one of the busiest points on the whole waterway, and though the working boats are long gone, the canal still runs through the middle of the town’s life — walked daily, fished quietly, and known intimately by residents who have crossed its bridges for decades.
Select Home Care Services provides home help and companionship in Burscough — meals, shopping, housekeeping, appointments and company — at a standard rate of £33 per hour.
Burscough has kept the feel of a proper town: two railway stations, a working village centre, the ruins of its ancient priory, and Martin Mere on its doorstep drawing wildfowl and walkers in equal measure. It is a place with its own history and its own pace — and people who settle here tend to stay.
Our free guides answer the questions most families ask first.
Burscough is a town of long threads. Families who worked the canal, the railway and the farms settled here generations ago, and their descendants still live along the same roads. Newer residents arrive for the countryside and the connections — two stations, the A59, Ormskirk and Southport both close — and find themselves absorbed into a community that still functions as one.
Long-term residents have their own relationship with this place that goes deeper than any landmark. The towpath their feet know without thinking. The neighbours who have been part of the same street for decades. The morning walk that has been the same morning walk for years. These are the things that make Burscough feel like home in a specific, irreplaceable way.
Practical help in Burscough often means getting to appointments at the GP or Ormskirk District General Hospital, help with shopping locally or in Ormskirk, meals prepared at home, and regular company. If your helper drives you, mileage is charged as shown on our Pricing page.
For older adults in Burscough, the desire to remain here — in the home they know, near the canal, within the town they have been part of for years — is almost universal. What gradually threatens that is not any single thing, but the accumulation of small practical difficulties that, left unaddressed, shift the balance.
We cover the whole of Burscough within L40. If you are unsure whether your road falls within our area, please call us and we will confirm immediately.
Select Home Care Services was founded by senior carer Anita and registered nurses Natalie and Nicola. We provide home help and companionship. We are not CQC registered, and we do not provide personal care, nursing or medical treatment, or give medication — if that kind of help is needed, we will say so and point you to the right service.
£33 per hour. Every service. Holiday rates published.
No registration fees · Published prices · Minimum visit one hour · No long-term contract
If you have a question not answered here, please call us on 01704 333 188. We are always happy to talk without any pressure.
See All QuestionsThe first call is simply a conversation, with no commitment. We will listen carefully and give you an honest view of whether home help is what is needed. If you decide to go ahead, we arrange a visit to talk through what would help, and agree everything in a simple written agreement.
Some families call us having thought about it for a day. Others have been sitting with the question for months. Either is fine. The conversation will be the same: unhurried, honest and without any pressure.
If we are not the right fit, we will say so — and do what we can to point you in the right direction.