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Hale Village has many visible heritage aspects, such as buildings and locations, but it also has many other hidden aspects of heritage still visible today, if you know what to look for. Hidden away in various locations around the village, you can see some resemblance to old estate life and village life..

Here on our "Hidden Heritage" page, we show you locations and items that indicated how the village and estate once was, possibly around 100 years ago at the turn of the 1900's and later on at the turn of the 2nd world war.

There are still many visible items that indicate what life was like around the
old Ireland Blackburne estate, of Hale Hall. Following the Permisive Footpath
routes, you can still see remains of the iron fencing and old iron gate post's
that use to surround Hale Hall and the extened parkland.
The current Permissive route, is not a footpath of sorts, but is the remains of
one of the service roads that stretched from the walled garden, over the
stream and up to the Park Lodge at the top of Hale Road opposite the now-
Hale Service Station. Other hidden heritage includes the Shell Gate, Ice
House, Ha-ha walls, tennis court/s and the small chimneys used for the
fires/boilers to heat the greenhouses and conservatories.

  Most of the area where the Hall once was, is now overgrown, but if you walk along the driveway where the Hall use to be, there is-to the trained eye and with showing you on here,,, resemblance and indications to several locations near each other, that show how then - and now, the area has changed since the early 1930's and if not before.

To the right we show you two colour and two black and white photo's of two area's that show such changes.
The first set show's you the famous Lime Tree you see in the old black and white
photographs, followed by a colour photograph of how it looks now.

The seceond set, shows you the end of the drive infront of the Hall , note the
Yew tree next to the Hall and small garden gate/fencing followed by a colour
photograph of how it looks now, the Yew Tree has been sawn down due to fire-vandalism damage

Wander along Withins Way towards the Mersey and you will pass by the "Wishing Tree". It is a very old Sycamore, with two distinct holes, one high up on the trunk and the other low down near the verge.
The story is, that young village children
were told that fairy folk lived in the tree
and if the children could throw a penny
or two into the holes and make a wish,
their wish would come true. Older
children were told to aim for the hole
higher up on the trunk and very young
children could use the hole at the bottom
of the trunk..

  This historic item is a sundial, it was given to St Mary's Church in 1646 by
  Sir Gilbert Ireland of Hale Hall.
 
  The Sundial is located opposite John Middletons grave, near the South
  Doorway/Porch

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