IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Vale Royal Drive, NORTHWICH, CW8 2BA
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Vale Royal Drive, CW8 2BA by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (6 Images Found)
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Vale Royal Abbey Golf Club house
The Club house was built on the site of what was England's largest Cistercian Abbey, founded by Edward I, who in 1277 laid the first foundation stone. It took a further 53 years to complete the Abbey. When constructed, the Abbey was larger than Westminster Abbey. In the 16th century, following Henry VIII's Reformation and Dissolution of the Monasteries Acts, Thomas Holdcroft purchased the estate and pulled down the Abbey and built the Great House.
Image: © Steve Leech
Taken: 8 May 2005
0.03 miles
2
Vale Royal Abbey
The "abbey" has not been a religious site since the Reformation, but this imposing building roughly on the site of the mediaeval foundation has kept the name. It is now a golf club and conference venue, but was originally a private house - see Image for more history - and from the 1940s was for a time the headquarters of Cheshire Constabulary*.
* reference: "Along the Viking Border", LMS Route Book No. 2, 1947. I have not found corroboration of this elsewhere.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 26 Dec 2011
0.08 miles
3
Vale Royal Abbey
The "abbey" has not been a religious site since the Reformation, but this imposing building roughly on the site of the mediaeval foundation has kept the name. It is now a golf club and conference venue, but was originally a private house - see Image for more history - and from the 1940s was for a time the headquarters of Cheshire Constabulary*.
* reference: "Along the Viking Border", LMS Route Book No. 2, 1947. I have not found corroboration of this elsewhere.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 26 Dec 2011
0.10 miles
4
Vale Royal Club House
Site of the former, medieval abbey of the same name
Image: © Anthony O'Neil
Taken: 22 Aug 2019
0.10 miles
5
Luxury housing, Whitegate
Recent development, with echoes of Elizabethan style, redolent of the ancient Vale Royal estate
Image: © Anthony O'Neil
Taken: 22 Aug 2019
0.12 miles
6
Vale Royal golf course
Viewed from the public footpath running across the course.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 26 Dec 2011
0.21 miles