. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. hose name is given in the list of Quakers, c. 1670 (page 397). A modern farm-house now occupies the site of Brassey Hall, and retains the old adjacent fields are still called the Hall-field, and The Park. One of the principal residences in Nantwich-Willaston, called Mount Pleasant, wasbuilt shortly before 1828 by the late William Salmon, Esq.; and is now occupied byhis nephew, Henry Daniel Hill, Esq. On this rising ground formerly stood a windmill,that was blown down some years ago. Win
. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. hose name is given in the list of Quakers, c. 1670 (page 397). A modern farm-house now occupies the site of Brassey Hall, and retains the old adjacent fields are still called the Hall-field, and The Park. One of the principal residences in Nantwich-Willaston, called Mount Pleasant, wasbuilt shortly before 1828 by the late William Salmon, Esq.; and is now occupied byhis nephew, Henry Daniel Hill, Esq. On this rising ground formerly stood a windmill,that was blown down some years ago. Windmill Lane (now Crewe Road) and BirchinLane locate the scene of Sir William Breretons victory on the 28th Jan. 1642-3. (Seepage 145). For a few years after 1825 Nantwich races were run on the Ox Pastures;and in this part of Nantwich parish land was purchased in 1875 for a NonconformistCemetery.* * Owen Murphy, of Love Lane, aged 45 years, was the first to be buried in this Cemetery, in Nov. 1S75. In lessthan four years, that is down to iSth Sep. 1879, there had been no less than 249 OLD HOUSES IN HIGH STREET. ^^^^J^^^
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