Hoole and the Railways: Difference between revisions

 

=== The impact of the railways on the small settlement of Hoole ===

In 1841, the small village of Hoole was part of a world where the parish boundary of St. Peter's Church, Plemstall (or ''Plemondstall'' as it was called in the tithe records) and the city parishes of St. Oswald's and St. John's still shaped the identity of the community and an appreciation of what was lawful. The rigid social hierarchy was based on aristocratic landowners with shared certainties in their religious and political principles and matters of taste. Major landowners included the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Hamilton and Brittain families.