Croxteth Hall And Country Park
Elizabethan ancestral seat of the Earls of Sefton, set in a country park with a walled garden and farm.
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This guide to Croxteth Hall and Country Park in Liverpool follows William Molyneux, the second Earl of Sefton, a Regency gambler and friend of the Prince Regent whom London society nicknamed Lord Dashalong. It moves through his world of coaching clubs, fox hunts and greyhound coursing, and to the year engineers came to survey a steam railway to Manchester. Best heard standing in front of the hall's long west front.
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