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sandysmith Says: The almost rectangular village green is a peculiarity in Willaston...in fact village greens are quite a rarity throughout Cheshire villages altogether. Some interesting buildings surround the green too.
Award Winning Willaston Village
sandysmith Says: Willaston is an interesting Cheshire village - a once typical farming settlement, grouped around the village green. A delight to stroll around to admire the old architecture and to visit the old preserved station on the country park walk It has won best kept village awards...
Pollard Inn: Go somewhere else, Food is dire
DeerHunter270 Says: I was my misfortune to arrange lunch to celebrate the birthday of my father in law , we were a party of 6 adults and 4 children, we arrived at 12.30, the rest of our party arrived by 12.40, ordered our meals at 13.05, after 45 mins we enquired where our food might be, the...
Pollards: The Hidden Inn on the Wirral
sandysmith Says: The Hidden Inn on the Wirral.Pollard’s Inn was once a 16th Century Farm House with Medieval features such as Mullioned Windows, heavy Oak Beam Inglenook Fireplaces and Sandstone walls. I've enjoyed a Coronation Chicken Baquette for a lunch time snack in the conservatory...
On the the weekend of the scarecrow festival in Thornton Hough some of the village access roads ae closed to normal traffic and some bus routes diverted. Car parks are set up on the village perimeter and heritage buses are used to ferry people freely into the village.
Written Jul 3, 2005
sandysmith Says: On display at the fete day of the Scarecrow festival were these beautiful Bernese dogs - there were so many of them! Several had these swiss carts to pull with the local produce - just seemed a shame that the owners had never been to Switzerland though!Please enlarge pic to...
sandysmith Says: The Saturday of the Scarecrow Festival week and the normally quiet village green is taken over with a funfair and stalls with chaity games like dunk a pirate and country products for sale. Each stallholdeer dresses a scarecrow too and an award is given for the best one. It...
sandysmith Says: Since 1999 the village of Thornton Hough has held a yearly scarecrow festival - it has been gaining increased attraction and in 2004 won the Mersey Award Tourism Award for ‘Small Event of the Year’.Each year has a theme - and in 2005 its was a nautical theme to tie in with...
sandysmith Says: The whole village joins in with the week long festical and it draws crowds from quite a distance. Virtually all the gardens on an estate in the village have scarecows of some type or another and all around the houses by the village green too - even the church roof! Its a...
sandysmith Says: A largish mere is nor far from Willaston in Raby. Its a popular place to feed the ducks and to walk in the nearby area. A wide variety of ducks can be seen here including the colourful Mandarin DuckI also have dim distant memories of boating on this lake too but I'm not sure...
sandysmith Says: The Smithy in Thornton Hough is about a hundred years old - Lord Leverhulme had it installed to service his hunters and horses of the estate. Today it is still used for shoeing local horses and demonstrations can often be seen as the current local smithy and farrier and his...
sandysmith Says: There are many architectural gems around the village like the sandstone church buildings and the black and white timbered buildings commonplace to Cheshire. Just as in Port Sunlight the details of the chimmneys make a great feature juxtaposed with interesting facade details.
sandysmith Says: Thornton Manor is not open to the public but during special events, such as hte scarecrow festival, and bank holidays the extensive gardens of the estate can be visited - usually for a small entrance fee. It was late in the day when we discoverd this as it would have been...
sandysmith Says: The third Viscount Leverhulme sadly past away in 2000 leaving his rich estate to his three sisters. Well the beautiful victorina gothic style mansion was sold and bought by a London family. The reamining estate, containing the village of Thornton Hough is still owned by the...
sandysmith Says: Thornton Hough is the most delightful of Wirral's villages set in the central part amid rural lanes and farms. It was in 1889 that the first Viscount Leverhulme started work on Thornton Hough and some years later he purchased the mansion of Thornton Manor where he settled...
sandysmith Says: One of the Churhes at Thornton Hough - St Georges - has an ornate porchway leading up to its entrance - so much detail to take in.
sandysmith Says: The village of Raby is an idyllic farming hamlet and tucked away is the delightful inn the "Wheatsheaf" with its thatched roof. A peaceful place to sup a pint.It has a coutyard beer garden to the rear too.
The country lanes around Wilaston and Thornton Hough lend themselves to delightful cycing or walking trails. A shortish hike (less than 4 miles) takes in the countryside around Thornton Hough and its neighbouring village of Brimstage.(see web link for details and route).
In Willaston there is the country park trail following the old railway track to Hooton or Parkhgate.
Updated Apr 4, 2011
sandysmith Says: The almost rectangular village green is a peculiarity in Willaston...in fact village greens are quite a rarity throughout Cheshire villages.
sandysmith Says: Willaston is an interesting Cheshire village - a once typical farming settlement, grouped around the village green. A delight to stroll around to admire the old architecture and to visit the old preserved station on the country park walk (see "must see" tips.) It has won...
Wirral Wandering - Willaston and Around
Willaston was a place I rediscoverd when a VT friend came to stay. Sometimes you can forget how interesting a place near to your own doorstep can be, so many thanks Rosie (kennetRose) for reopening my...
Pollards bar food in Willaston, Curry Night
If you like going out for a good curry do not go to Pollards on a Tuesday !! Only if you think a chicken curry should consist of 3 battered chicken strips ( that are on the childrens menu by the way)...
Build your own Willaston page
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