The Stranger's Handbook to Chester and Its Environs: Containing a short sketch of its history and antiquities, a descriptive walk round the walls, and a visit to the cathedral, castle, and Eaton Hall.Hughes, Thomas
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The Stranger's Handbook to Chester and Its Environs: Containing a short sketch of its history and antiquities, a descriptive walk round the walls, and a visit to the cathedral, castle, and Eaton Hall.
Hughes, Thomas
Chester (England) -- Guidebooks
We are now speeding along in front of the WATER WORKS, an establishment
which has literally worn itself out in “the temperance cause,” and now,
in a great measure, superseded by the New Works lately erected in higher
Boughton. Just above is ST. PAUL’S CHURCH, of which we told you enough
in our last chapter.
Onward again, past West Mount and Dee Banks, we are soon in front of
another range of villas, of recent construction, called DEE VIEW, from
the long stretch of the Dee which the site commands. This part of the
River takes the name of the _Long Reach_, until we come to IRON BRIDGE,
vulgarly _Heron Bridge_,—yonder house amid the trees—the pleasant
residence of C. W. Potts, Esq.
Yonder is the tower of ECCLESTON CHURCH; and as we are now nearing the
village, we may land, if we choose, and indulge in a hasty stroll of
inspection. ECCLESTON is the pet village, and wholly the property of the
Marquis of Westminster, whose elegant mansion, EATON HALL, we are so soon
about to visit. Every house in this village is a picture of itself,
clothed in woodbine and choicest evergreen, and adorned with small, but
sweetly smelling gardens. The CHURCH is a modern structure of red
sandstone, having taken the place of an older temple in 1810. The
interior has recently been altered and re-decorated by Lord Westminster,
and is now a pretty little model of a village sanctuary. The space above
the altar is occupied by Westall’s grand painting, “Joseph of Arimathea
begging the Body of Jesus from Pilate.”
It is now time to retrace our steps, and row glibly on towards the IRON
BRIDGE and LODGE, the former erected, in 1824, by the late Lord
Westminster, at a cost of 8000_l._ Another course, and one we ourselves
prefer, is to row merely to the EATON LODGE, a short distance up the
river, and there, leaving our friendly barge, take the road along the
Park,
’Twixt avenues of proud ancestral trees,
till we find ourselves suddenly close to the western entrance to EATON
HALL, the princely seat of the MARQUIS or WESTMINSTER.
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