156 Adlington and Prestbury. 



Adlington Hall is the seat of Charles Richard Ban- 

 astre Legh, Esq. Nowhere is there a park more beauti- 

 fully timbered, nor are there any pleasure grounds in the 

 county more delightful. Prestbury, in turn, has special 

 attractions for the antiquary. Though not mentioned 

 in Domesday, it was a place of importance at a very 

 early period, as proved by its architectural remains, the 

 chancel and south aisle of the large and venerable 

 church being of about A.D. 1 130, while in the graveyard 

 is a building, (now used as a Sunday-school,) the site of 

 which was once occupied by a structure probably Nor- 

 man, there being a doorway of the original edifice still 

 extant, in which mouldings, apparently Norman, are 

 preserved. The Sunday-school itself was built in 1747; 

 the tower of the church, which is in the Perpendicular 

 style, is of about A.D. 1460; the incongruous north aisle 

 was rebuilt in 1739. 



When at Prestbury we are also near BOLLINGTON, the 

 country surrounding which abounds with bold inequali- 

 ties of surface, deep and romantic valleys, and little 

 streams. The higher parts are wild, and often bleak ; 

 it is a grand district, nevertheless, for the lover of 

 mountain-air and ample prospects one of the views, 

 from the summit of a hill locally called " White Nancy," 

 extending as far as Liverpool. From quarries on the 

 Bollington side of the lofty grounds called the " Ker- 

 ridge hills" is obtained the well-known and admired 

 building-material called " Kerridge freestone." 



