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Little Moreton Hall Cheshire |
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Little Moreton
Hall is one of the finest timber framed manor houses in Britain, built
around 1450 very little has changed in the past 500 years. It was owned
by the Moreton family for almost all of it's time passing to the
National Trust in 1937. |
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To see a map of the area click here |
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The Hall is surrounded by a moat which is fed from a nearby stream |
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Reflection in the water |
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Your eye's do not deceive you the Hall is as crooked as it looks, at the top running the full length of the building is the long gallery |
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Entering the courtyard |
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Gabled bay windows in the courtyard |
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Above the entrance in the courtyard some repair work has been undertaken |
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Entrance to the Great Hall, buildings were added gradually over the years in a clockwise direction |
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Looking from the Great Hall into the courtyard |
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The Yew tunnel |
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Elizabethan Knot Garden |
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Rear of the Great Hall |
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The Knot garden |
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The brick buttresses on the south range were built to stabilise from the heavy load of the Long Gallery |
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Sunlight catches the glass |
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Little Moreton Hall |
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All Images © John Beres and Carol Carlin 2003-2008 |
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