Foxhill’s Arboretum and Frodsham Hill

Foxhills is a place of worship, but was built over 150 years ago and built around a well.  The grounds, has an arboretum of trees of varying types from various parts of the world and also a folly which overlooks Ellesmere Port and Stanlow.

Foxhills

Following what paths we could find, we found the folly as well as this stone archway.  Continuing we also got some misty views over towards Helsby Hill and Stanlow.

The other area near Foxhills I wanted to see especially was Frodsham Hill which is a ancient iron age hillfort.  now covered in trees, some of the former ditches can be seen as well as old stone walls from when possible the area was used by farmers.  Much of the area is covered in trees as well as a new plantation of trees to the south end of the hill.

Old stonewalls which i guess might be boundary walls at one point.  Not going to keep much out now.

Beyond is Helsby Hill and the estuary as well as Stanlow.  At one time beyond the refinery on a spit of land was an Abbey.  Long since gone only a small amount of stones remain of the abbey and sadly inaccessible today.

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