Plan of Property situate at Little Sutton in the County of Chester, (UK), belonging to Richard Naylor Esquire.

Linen backed hand drawn estate plan with outline hand-colour, dust marked. Showing:- roads, inns, railways and numbered fields and their sizes, etc. Mr. Naylor, a wealthy Liverpool banker bought Hooton Hall and the land for 82,000 guineas from the Stanley family to cover their gambling debts in the 1850's. He then built a racecourse, polo ground, heronry, stud farm and a church in Childer Thornton in memory of his first wife. . To avoid paying rates the hall was emptied of contents and staff in the 1890's but the estate continued to be farmed whilst the racecourse and polo ground remained in use.