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Parkland Court, PRENTON, CH43 7ZG

The road, electricity pylons and the railway line all heading south. Junction 2 of the M53 is just visible on the right-hand side. Taken from the bridge.

Facing Bidston Hall is Bidston Hall Farm, the buildings are now in the process of being converted into residential accommodation.

An Arriva Trains Wales liveried Class 150, unit number 257, diesel multiple unit, with the service from Wrexham, heads along the Borderlands Line into Bidston.

The now-deserted pub, situated at the northern end of Fender Way

Stone farm, formerly the Ring o' Bells Inn at the junction of School Lane with Fender Lane. The last landlord, Simon Croft, also one of the inn's best customers, did little to discourage drunken behaviour, which distressed the churchgoers and led to the inn being closed down in 1868 leaving the village with no licensed premises.

This unusual looking farmhouse is medieval, it is situated opposite St Oswald's Church in Bidston Village. Once thought to have been a monastic building, it was built on thirteen different levels with thirteen flights of stairs, no two rooms being built on the same level, as can be seen by the position of the windows.

A stone cross with cast metal panels naming those who lost their lives in the first world war. For names see http://www.carlscam.com/warmem/bidston.htm

Bidston Hall is an early seventeenth century house associated with William Stanley, sixth Earl of Derby, who died 1627. It was more recently occupied by Sir Robert Vyner who gave the land on Bidston Hill for the observatory. It is built of yellow sandstone, the front approach is through a square court, with a handsome gateway having a singular arch highly ornamented with the cognizances of the Derby family. In some intermediatory purchase it is said Bidston Hall was won and lost at cards, to commemorate which a summer-house was built in the form of a club, the foundations of which still remain in the picturesque grounds attached to the hall.