Oaklands Hospital
Oaklands Hospital
The Daresbury Hotel was built on the site of a house called ‘Oaklands’. It was in the style of a Scottish baronial mansion, similar to The Beeches, in Moore. Oaklands was owned by the Greenall family and used as a military hospital dur...
Preston Brook Windmill
The windmill at Preston Brook was constructed by Thomas Brock shortly after his purchase of the manor of Preston Brook in 1769.Although there were many mills in the district, his choice to build one here was influenced by the coming of the Bridgewater...
The Floating Chapel
"A canal passes through an outlying part of the parish. The bargemen who frequented this canal were a special object of Mr Dodgson's care. Once, when walking with Lord Francis Egerton… he spoke of his desire to provide some sort of religious privileges f...
