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The Vicarage Botanical Gardens are on a site covering 7½ acres, adjacent to the Shell Carrington works on the edge of Carrington Moss. This is the sign on the path leading into the botanical gardens from the garden centre. The following is adapted from http://www.vicaragebotanicalgardens.co.uk/GARDENS/history.asp - Vicarage Botanical Gardens History During the eighteenth century, the Countess of Stamford gave a small cottage with five acres of land to the church for the building of a Chapel of Ease (Image]) and vicarage. After many years the Vicarage became redundant and fell into disrepair. The House Church, set up by a group of Christians from varied backgrounds, growing their own food and keeping animals, bought the Old Vicarage in the mid 1980s, moving north from their original location in Hampshire. A charity was set up and the grounds were landscaped to demonstrate that with God’s help Christians living in harmony and obedience to the Gospel of Christ could, through love, produce a veritable oasis amidst the industrial wasteland on all sides.

The access road from the A6144 to the chemical works on Carrington Moss.

St George's Church,Carrington is a Grade II listed building to the south west of the village, on the A6144 towards Partington. The church was built in 1757–59 for Mary, Countess of Stamford as a chapel of ease to serve the hamlets of Partington and Carrington. It is now redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George's_Church,_Carrington - Wikipedia)

The Vicarage Botanical Gardens are on a site covering 7½ acres, adjacent to the Shell Carrington works on the edge of Carrington Moss. The following is adapted from http://www.vicaragebotanicalgardens.co.uk/GARDENS/history.asp - Vicarage Botanical Gardens History During the eighteenth century, the Countess of Stamford gave a small cottage with five acres of land to the church for the building of a Chapel of Ease (Image]) and vicarage. After many years the Vicarage became redundant and fell into disrepair. The House Church, set up by a group of Christians from varied backgrounds, growing their own food and keeping animals, bought the Old Vicarage in the mid 1980s, moving north from their original location in Hampshire. A charity was set up and the grounds were landscaped to demonstrate that with God’s help Christians living in harmony and obedience to the Gospel of Christ could, through love, produce a veritable oasis amidst the industrial wasteland on all sides.

The Vicarage Botanical Gardens are on a site covering 7½ acres, adjacent to the Shell Carrington works on the edge of Carrington Moss. The following is adapted from http://www.vicaragebotanicalgardens.co.uk/GARDENS/history.asp - Vicarage Botanical Gardens History During the eighteenth century, the Countess of Stamford gave a small cottage with five acres of land to the church for the building of a Chapel of Ease (Image]) and vicarage. After many years the Vicarage became redundant and fell into disrepair. The House Church, set up by a group of Christians from varied backgrounds, growing their own food and keeping animals, bought the Old Vicarage in the mid 1980s, moving north from their original location in Hampshire. A charity was set up and the grounds were landscaped to demonstrate that with God’s help Christians living in harmony and obedience to the Gospel of Christ could, through love, produce a veritable oasis amidst the industrial wasteland on all sides.

St George's Church is a Grade II listed building to the south west of the village of Carrington, on the A6144 towards Partington. The church was built in 1757–59 for Mary, Countess of Stamford as a chapel of ease to serve the hamlets of Partington and Carrington. It is now redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George's_Church,_Carrington - Wikipedia)

St George's Church is a Grade II listed building to the south west of the village of Carrington, on the A6144 towards Partington. The church was built in 1757–59 for Mary, Countess of Stamford as a chapel of ease to serve the hamlets of Partington and Carrington. It is now redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George's_Church,_Carrington - Wikipedia)

St George's Church is a Grade II listed building to the south west of the village of Carrington, on the A6144 towards Partington. The church was built in 1757–59 for Mary, Countess of Stamford as a chapel of ease to serve the hamlets of Partington and Carrington. It is now redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George's_Church,_Carrington - Wikipedia)

The Vicarage Botanical Gardens are on a site covering 7½ acres, adjacent to the Shell Carrington works on the edge of Carrington Moss. This is the ornamental Garden near the old vicarage. The following is adapted from http://www.vicaragebotanicalgardens.co.uk/GARDENS/history.asp - Vicarage Botanical Gardens History During the eighteenth century, the Countess of Stamford gave a small cottage with five acres of land to the church for the building of a Chapel of Ease (Image]) and vicarage. After many years the Vicarage became redundant and fell into disrepair. The House Church, set up by a group of Christians from varied backgrounds, growing their own food and keeping animals, bought the Old Vicarage in the mid 1980s, moving north from their original location in Hampshire. A charity was set up and the grounds were landscaped to demonstrate that with God’s help Christians living in harmony and obedience to the Gospel of Christ could, through love, produce a veritable oasis amidst the industrial wasteland on all sides.