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[[File:LadyBroughton.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Lady Broughton (1770-1857) of Hoole House by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Raeburn Henry Raeburn].]]

Indeed at the relevant time Hoole House (demolished 1972) was occipied by Lady Elizabeth Broughton who was estranged from her husband. In the early 1800s, Lady Broughton transformed her new home with its extensive kitchen and formal gardens. Very late in his life, Thomas Harrison designed a large conservatory, a camellia house and a geranium house. Between 1826 and 1834, Lady Broughton designed and constructed an Alpine garden occupying over an acre of ground - based on the landscape of the Savoy Alps (where "Mont Blanc" is). John Claudius Loudon visited in 1831 and was very impressed; commenting in his "Villa Gardener"<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/70450#page/7/mode/1up "Villa Gardener"]</ref> that the garden was 'one of the most remarkable specimens of the kind in England. After Lady Broughton's death in 1857 the lease for Hoole House and its gardens and parkland was passed to Martha Panton (married to Rev. William Peplow Hamilton of Hoole, after whom Panton Street and Panton Place are named). During the 18th century the Panton family engaged in lead and silver mining in the Bagillt area of Flintshire and amassed considerable wealth and property. In 1837, Martha had been involved in a notable "forged will" case (see: [[The Trial of Thomas Williams]]). Hoole House passed back to the Hamilton family upon Martha's own death in 1883. One of the Hamiltons (Claud Hamilton Vivian) sold some of the land to local builder Henry Sumpter in 1890, after whom Sumpter's Pathway is named. The remaining land was sold to Mrs Potts of Hoole Hall. Shortly before the Second World War a large part of the parkland was purchased by Hoole UDC from the then owner, William Paul, to build what later became Maple, Pine and Cedar Groves. Vivian Terrace, Willow Crescent and Grove, Chestnut Close, Ashwood, Aspen Way, Alder Grove, Hoole Gardens and Hornbeam Close are among the many streets that derive their names from Hoole House and its gardens. After WW2 new housing estates were built on more of the land that had belonged to the house and the house itself eventually became flats in 1954. In 1972 the house was in a state of delapidation and it was demolished, being replaced with housing for the elderly also named Hoole House.

 

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