Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Vale Royal

Vale Royal, seat of Lord Delamere, Whitegate par., Cheshire, on river Weaver, 3 miles SW. of Northwich; was built in the time of Elizabeth on the site of an abbey founded in 1266; in the vicinity is a railway viaduct over the Weaver, 456 ft. long, with five arches 63 ft. in span and 60 ft. high.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Whitegate AP       Cheshire AncC
Place: Vale Royal

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