Daresbury
Up in the north of the county, ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ begin at the Old Parsonage, Daresbury, where Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born on January 27, 1832, eldest son of vicar of All Saints Church. Charles would become a brilliant Oxford mathematician, photographer and writer, adopting Lewis Carroll as his pseudonym on children’s books.
But his childhood was spent among Cheshire scenes and stories, like the mythical Cheshire Cat and the curious creatures carved on the pulpit in All Saints, which are said to include Alice’s Gryphon.
All Saints' sandstone Church at Daresbury is an ideal spot to visit. In the church building, a fine stained-glass window features the author and many of the characters from ‘Alice's Adventures in Wonderland’.
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