Darnhall
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Darnhall is a civil parish and small village to the south west of Winsford in the Borough of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire in England. It had a population of 232 at t
The MERLIN radio telescope, Darnhall
One of the Darnhall Knobs as viewed from Moors Lane
Darnhall Abbey
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Darnhall Abbey was a late-thirteenth century Cistercian abbey at Darnhall, Cheshire, founded by Lord Edward sometime in the years around 1270. This was in thanks, so tells the Abbey's chronicler, for
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…to drive three water mills and to make pools to keep fish. In 1270 at the behest of his son, Henry III gave the estate to the Cistercians, who built Darnhall Abbey in 1274 on the north bank of the new lake. However the land was not suitable for the grand scale of building envisaged, and the locals were not…
Possibly contemporary portrait of Darnhall Abbey's founder, King Edward I