GC4DEJR A Priory In Name Only (Traditional Cache) in North West England, United Kingdom created by Mr.R82

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Hidden : 6/2/2013

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This is a small clip-box cache containing a log book, pencil. It has room for several small items and travel bugs.

Priory Wood is located in Aigburth, Liverpool. It is a lovely piece of land with a grand history. Over the years it has gone through many transformations.

There was a common misconception that a monastery once stood here and this was fueled by the number of houses built by John Cragg in the early Nineteenth Century who also built the church of St Michael. Most of the houses in this area were given ecclesiastical names such as The Cloisters, The Hermitage and The Nunnery. The site that is now Priory Woods was originally home to four large houses, St Michaels Mount, The Friars, The Grange and The Priory as well as stables, coach houses and a lodge.

The Priory was built at the beginning of the 19^th centry for John Sothern, father of Lord Dundreary. By the 1880s it was owned by The Rogerson family.
View from the Mersey

The priory can be seen here on the left. The house on the right is The Grange.

The Priory Illustration

The Priory’s boundaries are edged with a stone wall that features the crosses that can still be seen on the entrance to Priory Woods today. This illustration also shows the shape of the land as it drops towards the Mersey that is accessed via a railed pathway. Sail ships can be seen in the background. By the 1970s that whole drop had been filled with rubbish by the council.

After Sothern’s death in 1881, the next prominent resident of The Priory is a Lord Mayor of Liverpool and owner of Lewis’s Department Store, Louis Samuel Cohen in 1899.

So what happened to the houses?
The Priory burned down in the 1930s. The Friars was demolished in 1930 but The Grange survived until 1959.
The Priory Woods as they are now called were a wastleland up to 1984 when they found a new purpose as a gateway to The International Garden Festival.
When the Merseyside Development Corporation developed Priory Woods they took some the ruins and rearranged them to their present locations.

I can not take credit for any of this information or collection of images. All information and images presented here were taken from the following blog with permission:
http://theprioryandthecastironshore.wordpress.com/

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