REVISED EDITION . 1890. Chester: Printed for the Compiler by PHILLIPSON & GOLDER, EASTGATE ROW. W. Gladstone. Photographed by John Moffat, Edinburgh. 1884 entered at stationers’ hall . all rights reserved ....

Visitors are allowed to use the Gravel Drives through the Park and Wood between Noon and Sunset. Persons exceeding this permission and not keeping to the Carriage Road will be deemed Trespassers. The Park is closed on Good Friday and Whit-Monday. Dogs not admitted. Excursion parties can only be received by special permission , and not later in the year than the first Monday in August . The House is in no case shown ....

Hawarden, in Flintshire, lies 6 miles West of Chester, at a height of 250 feet, overlooking a large tract of Cheshire and the Estuary of the Dee.  It is now in direct communication with the Railway world by the opening of the Hawarden and Wirral lines.  It is also easily reached from Sandycroft Station, or from Queen’s Ferry, (1½ m.)—whence the Church is plainly seen—or again from Broughton Hall Station (2¼m.).  The Glynne Arms offers plain but comfortable accommodation.  There are also some sma

The Ruins of Hawarden Castle occupy a lofty eminence, guarded on the S. by a steep ravine, and on the other sides by artificial banks and ditches, partly favoured by the formation of the ground.  The space so occupied measures about 150 yards in diameter.  Upon the summit stands the Keep, towering some 50 feet above the main ward, and some 200 feet above the bottom of the ravine. “The place presents,” says Mr. G. T. Clark, “in a remarkable degree the features of a well-known class of earthworks

The Church Hawarden Church, with its large graveyard attached, finely situated overlooking the estuary of the Dee, is supposed to have been built about A.D. 1275, and has much solidity and dignity of structure.  The patron saint is S. Deiniol, founder of the Collegiate monastery at Bangor, and about A.D. 550 made first Bishop of that See.  In the old records he is styled one of the three “Gwynvebydd” or holy men of the Isle of Britain.  He was buried in Bardsey Island.  A place still called “Dan

The modern Residence was built in 1752 upon the site of Broadlane Hall, the seat of the Ravenscrofts, an old house of wood and plaster, which came into Sir John Glynne’s possession by his marriage with Honora Conway, daughter of Henry Conway and Honora Ravenscroft.  Originally a square brick house, it was afterwards in 1809 extended by the addition of the Library on the West side and of the Kitchen and other offices on the East; the whole being cased in stone [27] and castellated.  The entrance

The Parish of Hawarden is a very extensive one, containing upwards of 17,000 acres, with a population, according to the census of 1871, of 7088.  Sixteen townships are included in it; Hawarden, Broadlane, Mancot Aston, Shotton, Pentrobin, Moor, Rake, Manor, Bannel, Bretton, Broughton, Ewloe Wood, Ewloe Town, Saltney and Sealand.  To provide for the spiritual wants of so large a district, four daughter churches have been built—viz.: S. Matthew’s, Buckley, [35a] in 1822, S. Mary’s, Broughton, [35b