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researchwriter
Thanks very much for this Cadfael. Can I ask where the image comes from (just so I can reference it properly if necessary).
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Hi researchwriter and Cadfael
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I don't know the source of the image that you posted, Cadfael, so you can speak to that point. However, the reference to Samuel Derrick and the view from Bloody Acre appears to refer to the following:
'The roads from Liverpool,' wrote Samuel Derrick in 1760, 'are deep and sandy; consequently rather unpleasant; but the views are rather extensive, particularly from a summerhouse on Childwall Hill, about three miles distant, where you have a prospect of fifteen counties and a good view of the sea. In the skirts of this hill are several small villages with gentlemen's seats scattered about, well covered and for the most part delightfully situated. . . .
The views from the neighbourhood of the church, from the hall, Gateacre, and as far as Woolton Hall. . . are extensive and particularly fine. On the west are seen with more distant eminences, Aughton Hills, near Ormskirk, traversing a line of country to the north-east. The prospect from Prescot to Farnworth terminates on the south-east with a distant view of the ruins of Halton Castle—now fast mouldering away—a range of hills beyond, and Norton Priory. . . . A large portion of the Mersey water forms one of the features of this scene, and gives great interest to a landscape that extends nearly fifteen miles. . . ."
Letters from Leverpoole, i, 29, quoted in Baines'
Lancs. (ed. Croston), v, 39. From:
'Townships: Childwall', A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3 (1907), pp. 108-111.
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