Daresbury Places

All Saints', Daresbury

All Saints', Daresbury

  I’m sure you all know where the church stands, but do you know that there was an Anglo Saxon chapel on a site in Daresbury, probably in the corner of Newton Lane and Chester Road? It would have been a wooden structure, so nothing of it r...
Daresbury Hall

Daresbury Hall

Daresbury Hall was built in 1759 for George Heron. He was married to Felicia Brooke, a descendent of the family from Norton Priory. They had two children, George, who became Rector of Lymm and Peter Kyffin, who married Rebecca Rutter of Moore Hall. Thus...
Travellers' Rest

Travellers' Rest

In an 1860 edition of the Western Daily Press, it was reported that James Kendrick esq, MD, of Warrington, had developed the idea of erecting substantial stone seats for weary travellers at the sides of highways that were well used by pedestrians....
Womens' Land Army Hostel

Womens' Land Army Hostel

In June 1941 fifteen girls of the Women’s Land Army moved into the old vicarage at Daresbury House. It had been acquired some months earlier, with the idea of turning it into a hostel which would accommodate up to thirty Land Girls, who would g...