Court Hey Hall was a mansion in England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 built for Robertson Gladstone

Robertson Gladstone

Robertson Gladstone was an English merchant and politician. He was the second son, and third child of Sir John Gladstone and the brother of William Ewart Gladstone who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom four times....

 (1805-1875), elder brother of William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...

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The hall was built c.1836 in the Court Hey

Bowring Park, Merseyside

Bowring Park is a small suburb of Liverpool in the borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England.-Description:Bowring Park is locatd between the Childwall and Roby districts and adjacent to the M62 motorway....

 area of what is now Knowsley Borough in Merseyside

Merseyside

Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. It encompasses the metropolitan area centred on both banks of the lower reaches of the Mersey Estuary, and comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral, and the city of Liverpool...

 and stayed in the Gladstone family until the death of one of his sons in 1919.

The estate was purchased in the same year by J. Bibby and Sons, cattle food manufacturers, and the Hall was used as a sports and social centre for the Bibby employees.

By 1948 the hall was beginning to deteriorate and in 1951 the company sold it and the estate to Huyton-With-Roby Council. The hall was demolished in 1956 and part of the grounds were turned into a public park

Park

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 called Court Hey Park

Court Hey Park

Court Hey Park is a park in Bowring Park, in Merseyside on the outskirts of Liverpool and is home to the National Wildflower Centre.-History:...

. The remainder of the estate was used for housing development.