Crewe Hall, one of the "Meets," is the seat of Lord Crewe, the grandson of
the beautiful Mrs. Crewe, so celebrated for her wit and Buff and Blue
politics, in the time of Charles James Fox, the Duchess of Devonshire, the
Westminster Election, and "All The Talents of the last century."
The Hall is picturesquely situated on a rising ground, well wooded, near a
small lake, and contains, among other pictures, portraits of Fox, "Coke of
Norfolk," and several other political friends with whom the first Lord Crewe
was closely associated. The hounds meet there occasionally, when a "find" is
sure, and a gallop through the park a thing to be remembered.
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NANTWICH, about five miles from Crewe, is one of the towns which supplies
Cheshire's salt exports, Middlewich and Northwich being the other two. In
all, rich brine springs are found, but the celebrated mines of rock-salt are
found at Northwich only. It is vulgarly imagined that the word wich has
something to do with salt, these three towns being often described as the
"Wiches." This is an error; and wich is merely an Anglo-Saxon corruption of
the Roman word vicus, as in Harwich. The salt-works of Nantwich are
mentioned in "Domesday Book.
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