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Frodsham

This is an attractive town with a broad High Street lined with thatched cottages and spacious Georgian and Victorian houses. During the 18th and early 19th centuries, Frodsham was an important coaching town and there are several fine coaching inns here. Built in 1632, The Bear’s Paw with its three stone gables recalls the bear-baiting that once took place nearby. Of the Earl of Chester’s Norman castle only fragments remain, but the Church of St Laurence (an earlier church here was recorded in the Domesday Book) is noted for the fine 17th century panelling in its exquisite north chapel. The Vicar here from 1740 to 1756 was Francis Gastrell, a name that is anathema to all lovers of Shakespeare. Gastrell bought the poet’s house, New Place, at Stratford and first incensed the townspeople by cutting down the famous mulberry tree. Then, in order to avoid paying the Corporation poor rate, he pulled the house itself down. The outraged citizens of Stratford hounded him from the town and he returned to the parish at Frodsham that he had neglected for years.