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CONTENTS CHAPTER VI PAGE Stoke in 1816 Whitby Stanney Stoke TheBunbury Family Chorlton and George Ormerod Backford The Birkenhead Family Lea Mollington Blacon Point Great Saughall Mrs. Mary Davies 74 CHAPTER VII Shotwick The Church The Castle Puddington Old Hall The Massey Family William Massey and the Pretender The Fight The Escape A Gallant Ride The Lofty Seat of Puddington Capenhurst 90 CHAPTER VIII Willaston The Old Hall Red Lion Inn The Wirral Stone Burton and the Congreves The Bishop of Sodor and Man Burton Parish Registers Burton Woods Quakers' Graves Nesse Lady Hamilton 103 CHAPTER IX Neston A Great Funeral The New Quay Neston Coaches The Church Burne-Jones Windows Parkgate The Smugglers A Friend of Milton Theophilus Gibber Charles Kingsley Raby Mere 120 CHAPTER X Wirral Footpaths Association Prenton An Ancient Road Storeton Storeton Hall The Quarries Brimstage Hall Brimstage Village Gayton Hall . 142
CONTENTS CHAPTER XI Heswall Oldfield Over the Fields to Thurstaston PAGE Thor's Stone Thurstaston Hall Dawpool, Hall and T. H. Ismay The Church Irby Hall Landican 157 CHAPTER XII Oxton Over the Fields to Woodchurch The Church Curious Charity Rent of the Farms Upton Bidston Bidston Hall The Derby Family James, 7th Earl of Derby Bidston Hill Wallasey Church Early Marriages The Racecourse . .169 CHAPTER XIII New Brighton Leasowe Castle Leasowe Racecourse and Lord Derby Horse-racing The Lighthouse Meols Stocks Dove Spit Encroachment of the Sea Hoylake Duke of Schomberg's Army A King at Hoylake The Hoyle Lake Rev. F. Sanders, M.A., F.S.A. . . . , . .181 CHAPTER XIV In the Footsteps of the Pilgrims A Cell of Monks Pilgrims Pilgrims in Japan The Constable's Sands Hilbre West Kirby Ships and Shipping in the Reign of King Henry VIII. West Kirby Church Grange The Glegg Family On Going Home . . 201
Page 1 and 2: \MBULATION ;IE HUNDRED WIRRAL
Page 5: A PERAMBULATION OF THE HUNDRED OF W
Page 10 and 11: First Edition, October 1909 Second
Page 12 and 13: DEDICATION I have also been fortuna
Page 15: CONTENTS CHAPTER I Leland's Descrip
Page 20 and 21: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PACK POOLE HA
Page 22 and 23: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PACK DAWPOOL
Page 24 and 25: INTRODUCTION of population can, lik
Page 27 and 28: A PERAMBULATION OF WIRRAL CHAPTER I
Page 29 and 30: LELAND'S DESCRIPTION OF WIRRAL Redd
Page 31 and 32: BOOKS ABOUT WIRRAL The year 1819 wa
Page 33 and 34: SITUATION OF WIRRAL to hear the nig
Page 35 and 36: DESCRIPTION OF WIRRAL of the church
Page 37 and 38: WIRRAL AFFORESTED one time densely
Page 39 and 40: STATE OF THE ROADS surface. Prior t
Page 43 and 44: CHAPTER II BIRKENHEAD PRIORY SEARCH
Page 45 and 46: BIRKENHEAD PRIORY sharp sea breezes
Page 49 and 50: TRANMERE HALL of the river Mersey,
Page 51 and 52: ROCK FERRY banks hereabout, where n
Page 53 and 54: NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE "Then he began
Page 55 and 56: PORT SUNLIGHT "Commerce," says Emer
Page 59 and 60: PORT SUNLIGHT library of technical
Page 63 and 64: BEBINGTON CHURCH the spire ; and ye
Page 67 and 68:
FLODDEN FIELD under the Earl of Sur
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THE MAYER MUSEUM of the parish, and
Page 71 and 72:
THE COW CHARITY amount was left for
Page 74 and 75:
COURT HOUSE, BROMBOROUGH POOL ELEPH
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THE PURITANS roused his ire that he
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A MODEL VILLAGE came courting, and
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BATTLE OF BRUNANBURH meadows on the
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BROMBOROUGH VILLAGE eye behold the
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BROMBOROUGH CHURCH some good modern
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CHAPTER IV EASTHAM SOON after passi
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FAITHFUL SERVANTS would lessen him,
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EASTHAM VILLAGE tion. The view of t
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THE STANLEYS OF HOOTON dignity and
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EDWARD STANLEY resisted Count Hohen
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THE OLD HALL Spaniards, and enliste
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HOOTON HALL PRESENT DAY POOLE HALL,
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CHAPTER V POOLE HALL LEAVING Hooton
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THE CLOCK-TOWER oak, and a room ups
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WILLIAM THE RAKE house shall provid
Page 114:
ELLESMERE PORT habited cottages a s
Page 118 and 119:
STANLAW ABBEY There is a small rabb
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THE GREAT FIRE lying buried therein
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ROBERT HAUWORTHE degree. The twenty
Page 127 and 128:
THE FARM corporated portions of the
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SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF WIRRAL lord an
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STOKE were considered as old as the
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STOKE CHURCH stained glass, in whic
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GEORGE ORMEROD enduring monument. N
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MOLUNGTON HALL
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ROBERT DE RODELENT they caught him
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MRS. MARY DAVIES slowly to Great Sa
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GREAT SAUGHALL this poor afflicted
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SHOTWICK IT is impossible to stand
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SHOTWICK had been in the neighbourh
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SHOTWICK CHURCH bits, the whalle, s
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FIELD PATH TO PUDDINGTON of the squ
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WILLIAM MASSEY the fifth baron of D
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THE ESCAPE not before many of the J
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CAPENHURST private grounds to the h
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CHAPTER VIII WILLASTON IF ever the
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AN OLD ENGLISH INN of news-room, wh
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THE WIRKAL STONE
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BURTON MANOR planted some bright ro
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COL. WALTER N. CONGREVE, V.C. rifle
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BURTON CHURCH is a picturesque buil
Page 195 and 196:
BURTON PARISH REGISTERS His works a
Page 198 and 199:
O 1
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DENHALL he would take twice from th
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LADY HAMILTON held in the neighbour
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CHAPTER IX NESTON I WAS quite hungr
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A GREAT FUNERAL extent and hardship
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NESTON COACHES out, so that in a li
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NESTON CHURCH of steam has altered
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LONGEVITY manship, executed, perhap
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A SPLENDID LUNCH degrees to the eas
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A STROLLING PLAYER ant, or Memoirs
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WILLIAM DANIELL, R.A. " At Parkgate
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Oh ! MRS. DELANY'S LETTERS poor Wil
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THEOPHILUS GIBBER to Fitzgerald, "
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RABY MERE and after crossing the hi
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DIBBENSDALE If it is at the end of
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PRENTON Never walk through Birkenhe
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AN ANCIENT ROAD you will find in a
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STORETON Arthur Young was travellin
Page 245 and 246:
A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE chief forester
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SIR JOHN TROUTBECK towards the end
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BRIMSTAGE SMITHY house having been
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GAYTON HALL their activity by arres
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CHAPTER XI HESWALL AND now, to quot
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HESWALL CHURCH where are also the G
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THURSTASTON Thurstaston has altered
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THURSTASTON HALL Many people do not
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THOMAS HENRY ISMAY which again repl
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IRBY HALL mound is unusually high,
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CHAPTER XII OXTON HAS Oxton changed
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THE COW CHARITY in colour, yet so r
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BIDSTON crosses the fields and pass
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THE SEVENTH EARL OF DERBY been give
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JAMES STANLEY, 7x11 EARL OF DERUY,
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BIDSTON HILL His wife was the grand
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WALLASEY residential quarter, and i
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NEW BRIGHTON find a strain of wild
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LEASOWE former days an interesting
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LEASOWE RACES The first sweepstakes
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LEASOWE EMBANKMENT the Act, and tha
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ANCIENT TOWN OF MEOLS hidden in the
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DEAN DAVIES' ACCOUNT The following
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THE HOYLE LAKE the Prince of Denmar
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HOYLAKE IN 1796 singularly contrast
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HOYLAKE IN 1813 on the larger and m
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THE VICAR OF HOYLAKE editor of the
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THE PILGRIMS it was here the Benedi
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THE CONSTABLE'S SANDS monks their s
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THE MONKS AT HILBRE "The document f
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WEST KIRBY of West Kirby spread its
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THE PORT OF DAWPOOL banks of the De
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WEST KIRBY CHURCH severe marches ov
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CALDY near Manchester, Esquire, who
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SCALE- 2 MILES TO I 2 3 INCH
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Dayton's " Polyolbion," 152 EASTHAM
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Wicksted, Richard, 81 Willaston, 10
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670 A perambulation thelQO of. DA 6
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