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Title: The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book
Revised Edition, 1890

Author: William Henry Gladstone

Release Date: December 3, 2006 [eBook #20012]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1890 Phillipson & Golder edition by David Price,
ccx074@pglaf.org

The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book.

_REVISED EDITION_.
1890.

Chester:
PRINTED FOR THE COMPILER BY
PHILLIPSON & GOLDER, EASTGATE ROW.

{W. Gladstone. Photographed by John Moffat, Edinburgh. 1884: p0.jpg}

ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Note as to the Illustrations.

The Views of the Castle Gate and of Broughton Lodge are taken from Blocks
kindly lent for the purpose of this publication by the Proprietor of the
_Leisure Hour_. And for the View of the House and Flower-garden I am
indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietors of _Harpers Magazine_.

W. H. G.

Regulations as to Hawarden Park and Old Castle.

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 Village and Manor.

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, (1.5 m.)--whence the Church is
plainly seen--or again from Broughton Hall Station (2.25m.). The Glynne
Arms offers plain but comfortable accommodation. There are also some
smaller hostelries, and a Coffee House called "The Wel