Chester Tourist - A History of Boughton (original) (raw)
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The Sandy Lane Ferry
The Sandy Lane Ferry starts its full summer 2024 service.
Saturday 25th May 2024.
The service takes passengers across the River Dee from Sandy Lane to the Meadows and back.
https://www.stwater.co.uk/in-my-area/planned-improvements/sandy-lane-chester/ Spring 2024 B5130 Sandy Lane Chester New 3km water pipe works. Temporary Closure due to Water Works. Severn Trent Water & Cheshire West and Chester Council Sandy Lane Road Closure Job number : 6152523 Road closures will be in place during the works. Alternative routes considered. Closures are will mainly affect the B5130, on Chester Road, Dee Banks and Sandy Lane, extending onto the A51 Christleton Road.Chester Canal Side 2 bed character home
1 Churton Street
Boughton
Chester
Cheshire
CH3 5ED
United Kingdom
12th September 2020 - A water main has burst on the main road in Boughton outside Waitrose. Road closed going out of Chester.
September 2020 - New experimental bus lanes have been put on Christleton Road.
New Shop
Fade Barbers
63-65 Boughton Chester CH3 5AF
July 2020 - Fade Barbers has opened 63-65 Boughton Chester CH3 5AF
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Construction is finishing on the new Moxy Hotel in Boughton and The Shot Tower Apartments - August 2020
www.facebook.com/No47barbers New Faulkner Street Shop is now open again. 
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Open Garden 2021 TBA
150 Barrel Well Hill
Boughton Chester
Will be open again this year for a few days as part of The National Gardens Scheme.
3800 NGS gardens to visit with the best of plants, flowers and garden design (including National Trust). Open your garden. 
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A History of Boughton
Origin of the name
Beach - ton [a settlement were beach trees are growing?] Bock -stow [blue stone, location of a blue boundary marker stone?]
Christleton Road, Chester (30 Minutes walk from the cross)
Introduction
Boughton is a suburb of Chester located a mile to the east of the city on a bend in the River Dee. Boughton has a long history stretching back into Roman times. Natural pure water springs were tapped and water transported to the Roman fortress nearby. Important Roman roads into the fortress were lined with cremation burials and possibly monuments. Traces of a Roman Temple were discovered near Boughton Bars. In the middle ages Boughton was a place of execution and the housing of the sick. Much of Boughton was destroyed in the English Civil War.
St Paul's Church, Boughton from the River Dee. Click for the Web Site >>>
There is not much for the tourist to see in Boughton today. Apart from the small graveyard of the chapel of St. Giles. The recorded history of this area of the city started in roman times. This area was the intersection of 3 roman roads. These roads can be seen on the small map above and the path of these roads can also be seen today.
The name 'boughton' or 'bluestone' may have originated from the placement of a blue boundary stone (now lost) along side the road similar to the Gloverstone which stood outside Chester Castle.
Roman Times
In Roman times Boughton was well outside the Roman Fortress. A number of Roman cremation urns have been discovered dotted throughout the area. Suggesting that the three Roman Roads that converged in the area may have had burials and cremations along them. The most surprising find to come from Boughton was a large Roman Altar standing almost four feet high. It was discovered by workmen in 1821 toppled over almost in situ in a field now lost called 'the daniels'. This was thought to be located somewhere behind the Cherry Orchard Pub. The altar was damaged by pickaxe before it was discovered what it was. The altar marked the position of the well head for the springs for the Roman Fortress. And is dedicated to the 'Nymphs and fountains of the twentieth legion (Valeria Vitrix)'. The inscription is on both sides and it was designed to be seen from two viewpoints.
The altar was purchased privately be the Duke of Westminster. And is now in the private grounds of Eaton Hall.
Near the altar was a spring long since dried up. Water was tapped off and conveyed to the fortress by the means of a terra cotta pipeline. Part of the aqueduct was found during the construction of the Grosvenor Park Lodge.
Some of the Roman Terra Cotta pipes found are now in the Grosvenor Museum.
The Hospital
The next major part of Boughton's history starts early in the 12th century when Earl Randle Blunderville founded a leper hospital, a mile from the city walls. This hospital looked after people with all kinds of diseases including the plague. The area is shown on the map as a cluster of pest houses surrounding a chapel, south of the road junction of Christleton and Tarvin Road.
There were in fact two chapels. One in the middle of the fork in the road called Boughton chapel-at-ease, belonging to St Oswald's parish. The other across the road called the Chapel of Spital Boughton. The hospital was granted charters and privileges including the right to extract tax from people passing with goods into Chester.
All that is left today is the small graveyard and an inscription. The inscription reads:
St Giles Cemetery. Here stood the leper hospital and chapel of St Giles. Founded early in the 12th century and endowed by successive Norman earls of Chester they remained in constant use until 1643. When defensive measures during the siege of Chester necessitated the demolition of buildings outside the city walls. The cemetery remained to mark the site and in time the little village of Spital Boughton clustered around it. In 1644 the royalist defenders suffered great loss of life in a gallant sortie in Boughton and many of the fallen were buried here. It was also used for victims of the plagues which ravaged the city in the 16th and 17th centuries. Being extra parochial the site was granted to the corporation by Charles II in 1685. As a burial ground and through for a period in the charge of St Johns parish. It remains in their hands. When protestant martyr George Marsh was burned at the stake on gallows hill close by his ashes were collected by his friends and buried here. The last burial took place in 1854.
A drinking fountain was erected in the middle of the road. But has since been moved to the side of the cemetery.
It has long since gone out of use. It is inscribed:
"Presented to the city by Miss Humble of Vicars Cross in memory of the late Ed Humble and the ---- who reside there"
George Marsh
A Protestant Martyr
(Born in Deane 1515 - Died in Chester 1555)
George Marsh was the only person martyred in Cheshire under Queen Mary. He was burned at the stake on the 24th April 1555 in Boughton north of Christleton road opposite the Gallows. George Marsh was condemned to burn to death as a heretic by bishop of Chester George Coats at the consistory court in the Cathedral. Which was then housed in the Lady Chapel behind the high altar.
George Marsh was a preacher from near Bolton in an area on the hill above the town called 'Deane'. He went about his way preaching stories from the bible in the villages around Bolton, he was employed by Edward VI in 1547 as a preaching minister. He was a tall man with a cleaver way with words. But during the reign of Queen Mary his preaching's were out of step with the new Catholic ways. He was brought before the authorities, Justice Barton at Smithills Hall. But refused to change his ways. He was imprisoned for a time at Lancaster Castle but people still flocked to his prison cell to hear him preach. He was then moved to Chester to be tried and executed. He was given the change to go free if he became a Catholic. But he refused to do this. He was taken to Boughton to be burned at the stake. He was tied to the stake and a barrel of tar was set above is head to drip on him as he burned. After he was executed his ashes were collected by his friends and buried in St Giles Cemetery nearby.
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John Plessington
Father John Plessington was the Catholic priest in charge at St Winifred's well, Holywell North Wales. Who was executed at Boughton on the 19th of July 1679. He was made a saint on the 25th October 1970.
There is a memorial to him in the entrance porch of St Werburgh's Catholic Church Grosvenor Road.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Plessington
Civil War
The entire township of Boughton was burned down in the English civil war on 20th July 1643 after an attack. This prevented parliamentarian troops using the buildings as cover to attack the city. West of the Hospital, just before the junction of Christleton road and Hoole Road. Royalist soldiers constructed an earth wall, to protect the city from attack. They built a turnpike barrier across the road. Two gun emplacements flanked it. Even today this area is known as The Mount. Because of the rests the muskets were placed on for steady aim. All that remains now the small graveyard of the hospital.
Near the site of the earth wall there is a 17th century figure high up the brickwork of a shop.
It is said that the small figure which appears to be a 17th Century soldier commemorates an attack on the Boughton suburb and turnpike gate by parliamentarian soldiers before the siege of Chester to clear the way so cannons could be brought along the road to St John's Church. So they could bombard the City within the walls.
Rebuilding
After the civil war Boughton was gradually rebuilt. For example, Boughton Hall. Which has an old fireplace with the date 1655 and TH inscribed above it. Boughton House on Sandy lane has a 17th century gable. The hospital was never rebuilt. Instead it was transferred to Northgate Street.
The ancient gateway called the Boughton Barrs was demolished.
Boughton Bars area today.
The Old Leadworks
October 2012 - Approval has been granted for Neptune Developments to create 52 apartments, 8 retail units, cafe courtyard and heritage centre.
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19th Century
Walmor House was built in 1890 over looking the river Dee on Sandy Lane. It was the headquarters of the Cheshire Fire Service until 1997. On Christleton Road the space by St. Giles cemetery was left after the 19th century Black Lion public house was demolished in 1971. The history of that establishment can be traced back to 1696. When the lord mayor greeted William III on his visit to Chester outside.
St Pauls church in Boughton was redesigned in 1875 by the Chester architect John Douglas.
Numbers 1 - 5, Christleton Road designed by John Douglas. It used to be a Post Office. The drinking fountain to the side was originally located in front of the building.
John Douglas restored the church of St Pauls.
20th Century
In the 20th century the Peacock pub was relocated from the other side of the road (From the site of the Peacock garage), to the corner of Heath Lane. This was to allow the parking of cars. The area continued to grow, and many houses and streets were built around Christleton Road. Just before the war years, rows of shops were built along Christleton Road before the peacock. A cinema was built next to the peacock but was never used as such. It is now an auction room. Sainsburys located a supermarket on the roundabout.
Today many fine houses line the River Dee at Boughton.
Boughton Shops.
The River Dee and the Meadows can be viewed in some places.
The Sandy Lane Ferry
http://cwac.co/N6ssJ Cheshire West and Chester Council September 2022 Have you ever used the Sandy Lane Ferry in Chester ? If so, please let us know what you think. We�re asking for views so we can improve or perhaps extend the service http://cwac.co/N6ssJ
The Pubs of Boughton
21st Century
New Canalside Housing Developments.
The area of the old lead works and the canal side are currently subject to new housing developments.
Below are pictures of Stocks Lane bowling green, Walmore Hill path to the river and Sandy Lane paddling pool.
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86/90 Boughton
Chester
CH3 5AQ
01244 345576
Fax : 01244 348134
Email : chester@audio-excellence.co.uk
Smashies Smash Burgers
59 Boughton
Chester
CH3 5AF
01244 340 330
www.smashies.co.uk
New Fast Food Outlet near Chester in Boughton.
NEW burger takeaway Opening 4th January 2022.
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Caldy Valley Retail Park
Sainsbury's Supermarket in Boughton near Boughton Heath Roundabout
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Premier Inn Chester Central South
Boughton Heath Roundabout. The entrance to Chester from the A41 from Whitchurch, A55 from North Wales, M53, M56.
The Entrance to Chester on the A41 heading into Boughton
Going along the A41 into Boughton
The Peacock Pub and the start of the Boughton Shops
Shopping in Boughton
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Mercure Chester Abbots Well Hotel
Whitchurch Road
Great Boughton
Chester
CH3 5QL
0844 815 9001
www.mercurechester.co.uk
126 En-suite Bedrooms
Large Private Car Park in front of the Hotel
Previously known as Ramada Jarvis Chester and The Abbots Well Hotel
A warm and friendly welcome awaits you along with comfortable beds with crisp cotton linen and soft duvets, flat screen TVs with on demand movies, loungable sofas and fine food and wines all in a relaxing atmosphere. Mercure Chester East offers a range of areas to eat and drink including an outside patio overlooking our beautiful gardens in the summer months. For the more active our Sebastian Coe Health and Leisure Club offers full gym facilities along with a large swimming pool, Sauna and steam room. Beauty treatments and massages are available on request. Whether for business or pleasure looking after you is our No 1 priority.
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Panarama of the Shops at the Bars in Boughton, Chester.
The Water Tower is now a listed building !
www.acaciafloraldesigns.co.uk Acacia Floral Designs have moved to Saltney
Business in the area
Kutchenhaus Chester  |
Kutchenhaus Chester Unit 2157 - 167 Foregate StreetChesterCH1 1HS01244 295 011showroom@chester.kutchenhaus.co.ukwww.kutchenhaus.co.uk/planning/showrooms/ Kitchen Showroom The German KitchenSupply only or fully installedFree design service Custom MadeFully assembled kitchen unitsFinance options availableAt Kutchenhaus we have Solutions made to meet your highest standards. German products are renowned for their quality and reliability.Visit a Kutchenhaus kitchen showroom. Your dream kitchen is just a showroom away. Looking for ideas for your new kitchen? Visit one of our many Kutchenhaus kitchen showrooms across the United Kingdom. In our showrooms, you can take an in-depth look at almost all the different kitchen ranges we have to offer. You can also book an appointment with one of our inhouse designers in your local showroom online. Our kitchen experts will give you ideas and advice on what your kitchen can look like and ensure that it works for your individual wantsClick here for more information |
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Deva Wines |
Deva Wines43 BoughtonChesterCH3 5AF01244 320 321Deva Wines wine merchants in Boughton less than one mile from the Cross.Open Monday - Saturday 10am - 10pm. Sunday 11am - 10pmClick here for more information Street parking available |
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Aliz  |
Aliz26 Christleton RoadBoughtonChesterCH3 5UG 077 330 76721www.alizvintage.co.uk Designer Vintage Clothing at afforable prices. |
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Entyce Creative  |
Entyce Creative1A Spital WalkChesterCH3 5DB01244 310 140info@entyce-creative.comwww.entyce-creative.com Entyce Creative is an innovative and professional design agency based in Cheshire. Read more about Entyce Creative > We adore what we do and our philosophy is to build long-lasting and rewarding relationships with our clients. We create thoughtful designs and ideas, and consistently deliver superb results by listening to our clients and involving them at each stage of our work. Our mission is to always meet and exceed expectations - and to challenge clients' thinking to ensure they get the most out of every project. Along the way we make their lives happier and easier. When you need an agency which is passionate about design and creativity, Entyce Creative makes perfect sense. |
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Flair Hairdressing Salon |
Flair Hairdressing Salon58 Becketts LaneChesterCH3 5RW01244 324 851Well established hairdressers in Boughton. |
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Chester Convenience Store  |
Chester Convenience Store9-13 BoughtonChesterCH3 5AE01244 324 081 Date Visited 17th August 2022Excellent large newsagent shop on Boughton main road. Open late alcohol sold. |
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The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation  |
The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation51 BoughtonChester01244 315 284https://www.roycastle.org Charity shop and donation station. Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation: The UK's only Lung Cancer Charity. Committed to medical research, reducing smoking and patient support.Click here for more information Date Visited 3rd March 2024 |
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Second Time Around Furnishings  |
Second Time Around Furnishings6 Christleton RoadBoughtonChesterCH3 5UG01244 316 394Graham and Gary Shackladygrahamshacklady@aol.com07831 318 41107889 988 887 |
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Simon Boyd  |
Simon Boyd38 Christleton RoadBoughtonChester01244 311 160www.simonboyd.com A leading soft furnishings company, Simon Boyd offer a great range of services including interior design, uphostery & made to measure products. |
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Alec Ainley  |
Alec Ainley97B Christleton RoadBoughtonChesterCH3 5UQ01244 346 558Fax 01244 315 505alec.ainley@btclick.comwww.alecainleyelectrical-chester.co.uk Electrical Wholesaler Date Visited 24th August 2021 |
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Flowers by Emma of Chester   |
Flowers by Emma of Chester140 Christleton RoadBoughtonChesterCH3 5TD01244 348 295www.flowersbyemmaofchester.com Flowers on the main shopping parade. Same day flower delivery Chester by Flowers by Emma Florist your local flower shop, send flowers, wedding flowers & funeral flowers.Previously called Flowers by Gaynor. Date Visited 10th February 2016 |
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Parkinson Property Rentals  |
Parkinson Property Rentals97 BoughtonChesterCH3 5BH01244 351 300parkinsonrentals@aol.comwww.parkinsonrentals.co.uk Looking to rent out your property? Our family run business has managed residential properties for over 25 years, providing a professional, comprehensive service.Landlord services Date Visited 12th July 2017 |
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