Little Moreton Hall is a moated half-timbered manor house near Congleton
in Cheshire, England. The earliest parts of the house were built for the
prosperous Cheshire landowner William Moreton in about 1504–08, and
the remainder was constructed in stages by successive generations of the
family until about 1610. It remained in the possession of the Moreton
family for almost 450 years, until ownership was transferred to the
National Trust in 1938. The building is highly irregular, with three
asymmetrical ranges forming a small, rectangular cobbled courtyard.
Little Moreton Hall and its sandstone bridge across the moat are
designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. The house
has been fully restored and is open to the public from April to December
each year. At its greatest extent, in the mid-16th century, the Little
Moreton Hall estate occupied an area of 1,360 acres (550 ha) and
contained a cornmill, orchards, gardens, and an iron bloomery with
water-powered hammers. The gardens lay abandoned until their 20th-
century re-creation. As there were no surviving records of the layout of
the original knot garden it was replanted according to a pattern
published in the 17th century.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Moreton_Hall>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1838:
In order to avoid persecution by anti-Mormons, Latter Day Saint
movement founder Joseph Smith and his followers fled Kirtland, Ohio, for
Far West, Missouri.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith>
1899:
During a storm, the crew of the Lynmouth Lifeboat Station
transported their 10-ton lifeboat 15 mi (24 km) overland in order to
rescue a damaged schooner.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynmouth_Lifeboat_Station>
1945:
World War II: The Soviet Union's Red Army crossed the Vistula
River in Poland on their way to invade Germany.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistula%E2%80%93Oder_Offensive>
1969:
In American football, the New York Jets upset the Baltimore
Colts to win Super Bowl III in one of the greatest upsets in American
sports history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_III>
2007:
Comet McNaught reached perihelion and became the brightest
comet in over 40 years with an apparent magnitude of −5.5.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2006_P1>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
heave in sight:
(nautical) To appear at a distance, to emerge in the field of vision.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heave_in_sight>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their
disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in
proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, — in
proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above
their vanity and presumption, — in proportion as they are more
disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference
to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling
power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it
there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the
eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be
free. Their passions forge their fetters.
--Edmund Burke
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke>