Peover Hall

Peover Hall Stable Block is in the grounds of Peover Hall, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

St Lawrence's Church, Over Peover is in the civil parish of Peover Superior. Close to Peover Hall and farm. It lies some 3 miles (5 km) south of the town of Knutsford. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The church is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Knutsford. Its benefice is combined with that of St Oswald, Lower or Nether Peover. It is noted for its old chapels and for the monuments to the Mainwaring family.

Peover Superior is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is described by the Office for National Statistics as a village surrounded by inhabited countryside. The civil parish includes the village of Over Peover and the hamlet of Peover Heath. Peover Superior is named after The Peover Eye river, which forms one of the parish boundaries. There is also a nearby village named Peover Inferior; the two areas are so named due to their standing on the river, with Peover Superior being higher up and Peover Inferior lower down on the river.

Radbroke Hall is a white French chateau-style former country house in Peover Superior, Cheshire, England. It takes its name from the Red Brook stream that runs through the grounds.

Colshaw Hall is a large house in Peover Superior, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. The house was built in 1903 and designed by the Chester architects Douglas and Minshull. It is constructed in red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof. It has two storeys plus an attic. Its architectural style is Tudor Revival. It was extended and altered by Percy Worthington in 1907.In the First World War the house was used as an auxiliary hospital, and during the 20th century it was damaged by fire, and parts of it were demolished.In the early 1980s, the house was purchased by property/business entrepreneur, Raymond Slater who painstakingly restored the house keeping what was left of the original fixtures and fittings. The restoration included acquisition of the neighboring farm Merrydale from the notoriously thrifty Mr. Wainwright. This paved the way for the construction of a nine-hole golf course cleverly designed by golf professionals Dave Thomas and Hugh Lewis - a serial raconteur!; a system of alternative tees enabled 18 convincing holes to be played. Despite its proportions and not least, its private ownership the course was exceptionally well-specified including a full underground irrigation system and ground drainage (undertaken by contractor PE Goode of Goostrey). Slater invested heavily in the formal landscaping erecting a waterfall and an oriental garden complete with pagodas, stone Buddha's and several ponds filled with Koi carp (the entire stock disappeared subsequent to his departure to Guernsey, a theft rumored to be linked to a local farmer).As the 1990s recession took hold along with a trail of overly ambitious business decisions, Slater (formerly in the Times Rich List with an estimated wealth in excess of £200 million) was plunged into financial difficulties and sold the Hall to his business partner Valerie Edwards of the Manchester United FC family. During her ownership the property was sometimes used by a sports management company linked to the golfer Andrew "Chubby" Chandler. Regular, national TV screened interviews of sports personalities were undertaken around the fantastic swimming pool complex. Later it was sold to David Irlam, of the haulage company James Irlam and Company. He laid the grounds to pasture, converted some of the outbuildings into residential accommodation for members of his family, and returned the house into a family home, in a condition as near as possible to its original state. Irlam also made the hall available for use by charities, but later decided to move out. The hall is now available for hire for functions and for weddings, and is managed by members of the Irlam family.

St Oswald's Church is an active Roman Catholic church in the Padgate suburb of Warrington, Cheshire, England. The parish was founded by Benedictine monks from Ampleforth Abbey, it is now served by clergy from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool.

Peover is a rural area in Cheshire, England straddling the boundary of Cheshire West and Cheshire East. It is southwest of Chelford and northwest of Jodrell Bank. Peover is mentioned in the Domesday Book as "Pevre", from a Celtic word meaning "the bright one" referring to the Peover Eye. It contains the civil parishes of Peover Superior (also called Over Peover), Peover Inferior (also called Lower Peover) and Nether Peover, as well as the hamlet of Peover Heath. Peover Hall in Peover Superior is a Grade II* listed country house. The area is largely flat but has narrow incised gullies along streams. The brook called Peover Eye, which is formed from several springs and field drainage in the Peover area, runs north-northwest into the Wincham Brook a short distance northeast of Lostock Gralam.

Goostrey is an old farming village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is in open countryside, 14 miles (23 km) north-east of Crewe and 12 miles (19 km) west of Macclesfield. Goostrey parish contains the huge Lovell Radio Telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, a UNESCO World Heritage site. According to the 2011 census, the civil parish had a total population of 2,179. Its area of 2,535 acres (10.3 km2) contains 956 houses. It contains 24 listed heritage assets and one scheduled monument (a bowl barrow near Jodrell Bank Farm). The Parish also includes the hamlets of Blackden, Blackden Heath and Jodrell Bank.

Ollerton Hall is a country house in the village of Ollerton, Cheshire, England. Its nucleus dates from the 17th century, originally on an H-plan, followed by a succession of "rambling extensions". A plaque over the entrance is inscribed with the initials THP" (for Thomas Henry Potts) and the date 1728. The house was built originally for the De Baguley family. The building is constructed in rendered brick with a slate roof. It is in two storeys and, with the later extensions, has an E-plan. The entrance front has five bays, the central bay projecting forward with a gable. At each end is a gabled cross wing. The windows are a mixture of sashes and casements. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

Ollerton is a village in the Borough of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south east of the town of Knutsford, and had a population of 323 in 2001, rising marginally to 329 at the 2011 Census.Local services are limited, and include a church in the adjacent village of Marthall, a pub and several postboxes. Other services such as the primary school, post office and shop have closed down, residents instead using services in Knutsford. Ollerton has a joint parish council with Marthall, elected every 3 years. The villages share the new village hall in Marthall, which was constructed in November 2009. Ollerton is thought to have come from the name Owlerton and is named in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Goostrey Primary School is a 4–11 mixed community primary school in Goostrey, Cheshire, England. Across from St Luke's Church is Goostrey Primary School which was originally a Church of England school. The earliest reference to a school in the church records is in 1640 when it was repaired. It was then next to the north wall of the churchyard where the old vicarage now stands, in a house which was also used as the court house for Goostrey Manor. This appears to have been pulled down in 1703. It may be then that the pupils moved across to the old school house, which is one of the oldest buildings in the village. In 1856 the main part of the present buildings were erected when the old days of a schoolmaster who was also the parish clerk came to an end. The last of these schoolmasters, Jonathon Harding, is buried by the west end of the church; he had held his office for fifty six years. Another chapter was opened in 1977, with the building of a new infants' department across the main road. With this the old connection of church and school has been severed.

St Luke's Church is in the village of Goostrey, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Congleton. Its benefice is combined with that of St Peter, Swettenham.