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What is on the rural sites now?
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PROPERTIES outside Nantwich also succumb to time and
property developers, so here is a page featuring them. The pictures are by
Nantwich Historian, Andrew Lamberton. For more details about his second book,
"Lost Buildings Around Nantwich", which features the properties, see
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Peacock demolished |
The old Peacock public house.
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THE old Peacock pub in Crewe Road, which stood at
the end of the terrace known as Brook Buildings, has been
demolished. "Luckily," said Andrew,  "I took a photo and included it in my
second book."
According to the book, the inn had one
guest bedroom in 1891.The pub's licence is believed to have been transferred to
the Peacock Hotel further up the road in the 1950s.
If you look carefully at the gable end
you can just see some markings which were an advert for the Peacock Hotel.
If you know Nantwich - and even if you
don't ! - the building stood in the dip in Crewe Road next to a brook just
inside the town boundary with Willaston - not far from where the Peacock Hotel
stands.
This (right) is the scene in mid-February
2008 with a digger excavating the site. More pictures can be seen on
this page.
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Taking its toll |
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Birchall Moss Tollhouse,
Hatherton |
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THIS tollhouse - in Audlem Road, Hatherton - has
been replaced by a modern house (built in 2006) standing behind the original
building. When major roads were turnpiked, anyone travelling past a tollhouse had to pay to use the next section
of road. It stopped being a tollhouse in1875, or thereabouts.
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Now a site for houses |
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Stapeley Farm,
Stapeley |
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PREVIOUSLY occupied by the Johnson family, Stapeley Farm, Stapeley,
stood on the corner of Audlem Road and Peter de Stapeleigh Way, near to the
traffic lights. It is on the
adjacent site to Stapeley Manor where houses and offices are being built. See
also
this page.
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And so new, too . . . |
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Hillcrest,
London Road, Walgherton |
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OFTEN pronounced with a soft "j" in the middle
(because of the "h"), this village is, in fact,
"WAL-ger-ton". Hillcrest, the
bungalow pictured here, was built in the 1950s or '60s, but the site now stands
empty.
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194 Audlem Road,
Nantwich |
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THIS wooden bungalow was one of two owned by the
same family before it was demolished in 2006 to be replaced by a two-storey
house. It has a new owner. The other bungalow, number 196, was demolished much earlier to become
the site of a modern house. The two stood on the boundary between
Nantwich and Stapeley.
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