You can look at the tithe maps for 1836-1851. I found the lighthouse that sits behind the houses in Hoylake (didn't realise it was so old) - you can even look at the plot details. There was another lighthouse on the corner of Alderley Rd just where it bends. Both were owned by the Corporation of Liverpool.
Surprised that at this point the battery is just a patch of waste land owned by Liverpool Corporation. Plot on corner of Mariners Rd and Magazine Brow appears to be the original (looked on Live search map in bird's eye. Says it was owned at that time by James Leay - I am sure I have heard his name linked with ownership of Tam O'Shanter cottage.
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I always believed Wirral had a missing castle, well here is something interesting from the 17th century at New Brighton? It can't be Mockbegger Hall as the inlet is still present?
The anomaly with this map is Hawarden (Harden) being marked differently, St Asaph is presumably Rhuddlan
Of course, 'IF' the Battle of Brunenburh' took place on Wirral, there should be one at Bromborough (brunen=spring, burh=fortification). Or there again it could have been taken to be the one at Poulton? Just a thought.
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Of course, 'IF' the Battle of Brunenburh' took place on Wirral, there should be one at Bromborough (brunen=spring, burh=fortification). Or there again it could have been taken to be the one at Poulton? Just a thought.
Poulton Castle was built 100 years after the Battle of Brunenburh but that doesn't preclude another earlier fortification being on the site as is quite common.
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