. The Doane family:. d to the town house of theArdernes, a fine old timber and plaster house, situated on the Under-bank, Stockport. THE DONE FAMILY OF CHESHIRE, ENGLAND. XVll On the side of the forest, north of Utkinton, are frequent evi-dences of consecutive narrow lanes, mostly tending from a point onthe Forest, known as the Old Pale, a sort of enclosure where deerwere kept. These lanes are narrow and come more under the termjetty, an obsolete Cheshire word not much used now, signifying alane too narrow for a vehicle, but with high sheltering banks orhedges clothed with verdure, the hawthor
. The Doane family:. d to the town house of theArdernes, a fine old timber and plaster house, situated on the Under-bank, Stockport. THE DONE FAMILY OF CHESHIRE, ENGLAND. XVll On the side of the forest, north of Utkinton, are frequent evi-dences of consecutive narrow lanes, mostly tending from a point onthe Forest, known as the Old Pale, a sort of enclosure where deerwere kept. These lanes are narrow and come more under the termjetty, an obsolete Cheshire word not much used now, signifying alane too narrow for a vehicle, but with high sheltering banks orhedges clothed with verdure, the hawthorn, honeysuckle and biam-ble. The lanes all tend in the direction of Utkinton, making as itwere the Old Hall a focus for the same, showing that in those daysUtkinton Hall with the demesne thereof was a center of considerableimportance. The main door of entrance to Utkinton Hall seems to havebeen always from the north side and is approached by a gatewaysimilar in character to the blocked-up one as shown in the GATEWAY AT UTKINTON. This gateway is upon the east side, following which are the re-mains of the Moat and an old Malting house. With the moat is con-nected a sad tale, telling of how a little girl, the daughter of a Done,had fallen into the water while gathering primroses and was drowned. The high wall enclosing the gardens is of old brick with stone fac-ings, stone balls surmounting the gateways, which with the walls are will IllK 1>»>NK FAMILY OF CllKSIllUK, lONdLAND. lichoii 8t:vin(Hl :viul bonr the soft groy lint^i ooinmon to all old builil-inj;s. The hrond oak iloor opoiis dircuU into (ho spaoious oiitraiicohall ineasurini; some thirty to forty foitsqiiaro and in hoight is some-what low in proportion to tlio snrface area. The lloor is of smoothlaiil Yorksiiiiv llaii, whili from the ccMitor springs a hnge pillar of oak,luoasnrinti in <;irlh sonu nino feot, and, extending throui;h tw«)npp(rlloors, has term roof-tree, which same tree iiail prolÂ
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