Saturday, 5 January 2013

Park House

A Georgian town house, built around 1717, for Elizabeth Booth, on Lower Bridge Street. It had two acres of parkland behind it, and, when the house became the Albion Hotel in 1818, that area became Chester's first public pleasure gardens, stretching all the way down to the city walls at what is now the Albion pub. They contained extensive flower gardens and a bowling green. The grounds closed in 1865, when Grosvenor Park was being created, and working class terraced houses were built on it. The Duke of Wellington stayed at the Hotel in 1820.

 See our Chester self-catering serviced apartment at Black Diamond Park


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