1718: Liverpool entrepreneur and attorney, Isaac Greene purchases manor of Childwall and the Manor House of Childwall Hall.
1749: Isaac Greene dies and daughter Mary inherits the estate and marries Bamber Gascoigne.
1780: New Childwall Hall built, replacing original manor house.
1824: Bamber Gascoigne dies and daughter Frances Mary inherits property. She marries James Brownlow William Cecil, the 2nd Earl of Salisbury.
1922: Childwall Hall becomes a golf club.
1939: Golf club lease expires and City Council buys 50 acres of land from Lord Salisbury who gives another 41/2 acres as a gift.
1949: Childwall Hall found to have dry rot and demolished.
1955: New college opens on site
1960: The wood that was part of landscaped park is separated from college grounds and opened to local residents.
1966: Liverpool City Council take over wood and surrounding land opened to the general public.
Today – ‘Childwall Woods and Fields’ remains public open space and a local Nature Reserve. The ‘ravine’; once the driveway to the Hall for coaches is a regionally important geological site (RIGS). Stands of mature trees, new plantations and biodiverse habitats accessible from its pathways and tracks will not disappoint the visitor.
Source: Pye, K. (2011). Discover Liverpool. Liverpool: Trinity Mirror Media
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