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Colehill Bank, CONGLETON, CW12 3AD

Located on the High Street, these gardens are a very popular and peaceful attraction.

Commemorating the dead from several wars, recent high winds had scattered the wreaths. Unusually, this monument also includes an inscription to the brave men of The Royal Netherlands Brigade "Princess Irene" that was formed in Congleton on January 11th 1941 http://www.prinsesirenebrigade.nl/chronicle.htm (in English) and http://www.prinsesirenebrigade.nl/ (in Dutch).

Bradshaw House Family Centre, on Lawton Street. An earlier house on this site (demolished 1820) was the home of lawyer John Bradshaw, the president of the court which condemned King Charles I to death in 1649.

The history attached to Bradshaw House, Lawton Street, described on the blue plaque on the front of the building.

Late Georgian house of c.1820. Grade II listed, see https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1130504

This is where the house belonging to John Bradshaw used to stand, before being pulled down in 1820. Bradshaw (1602-1658) was born in Stockport, Cheshire and was the younger son of a minor gentry family. He went on to study law at Gray's Inn in London before returning to Cheshire, where he became a prominent lawyer and was Mayor of Congleton in 1637. Later, he returned to London and became a judge at the Sheriff's Court, presiding over several high profile trials. In 1649, after several other prominent lawyers and judges had turned down the position, Bradshaw reluctantly took up the post of Lord-President of the High Court of Justice. Whilst holding office he presided over the trial of Charles I, sentencing him to death. Bradshaw died in 1659 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, after the Restoration he posthumously tried for the crime of Regicide (murder of a member of the Royal Family). Found guilty, his body was exhumed and hung in chains at Tyburn ( http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/bradshaw.htm ).

This blue plaque is mounted on the steps leading to Bradshaw House, the site of the former home of John Bradshaw. Bradshaw (1602-1658) was born in Stockport, Cheshire and was the younger son of a minor gentry family. He went on to study law at Gray's Inn in London before returning to Cheshire, where he became a prominent lawyer and was Mayor of Congleton in 1637. Later, he returned to London and became a judge at the Sheriff's Court, presiding over several high profile trials. In 1649, after several other prominent lawyers and judges had turned down the position, Bradshaw reluctantly took up the post of Lord-President of the High Court of Justice. Whilst holding office he presided over the trial of Charles I, sentencing him to death. Bradshaw died in 1659 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, after the Restoration he posthumously tried for the crime of Regicide (murder of a member of the Royal Family). Found guilty, his body was exhumed and hung in chains at Tyburn ( http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/bradshaw.htm ).

Grade II listed late eighteenth-century house. List entry: https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1104893

Historic pub on High Street. Internally, central bar with eating and drinking areas front, left and back; low ceilings, wooden beams, open fire, garden. Eight cask ales on offer at my visit; six from Titanic. The building is listed by English Heritage: http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=55873&mode=adv