点评:What a wonderful place this could be if North West Water maintained the replica of the castle.
Lord Leverhulme had this built in the early 19th C as one of his follies (he also built the terraced gardens going up from Rivington Reservoir, which the castle is built on the shore of....). It was built as a ruined replica - the ruins of Liverpool Castle still existed in Liverpool at this time (at the spot where the large Victoria Monument stands now).
It's worth visiting, just to be able to say you have done, and to imagine the castle in its glory. The replica as it is now however, is not being adequately looked after. It stand in the Rivington terraced gardens land (also owned by North West Water as they maintain the reservoir) but it is in a sorry state, covered in graffiti and plant life/bushes growing in the various spaces. It would be better maintained in the hands of the National Trust.
翻译:如果西北水务公司保留了城堡的复制品,这里会是多么美妙的地方啊。
利弗休姆勋爵在 19 世纪初建造了这座城堡,这是他的一个愚蠢之举(他还建造了从里文顿水库向上延伸的梯田花园,城堡就建在水库岸边……)。它是作为一座废墟复制品建造的——当时利物浦城堡的废墟仍然存在于利物浦(现在矗立着巨大的维多利亚纪念碑)。
值得一游,只是为了能够说你去过,并想象城堡的辉煌。然而,现在的复制品并没有得到充分的照顾。它位于里文顿梯田花园的土地上(西北水务公司也拥有它,因为他们维护着水库),但它的状况很糟糕,到处都是涂鸦,植物/灌木丛在各个地方生长。如果交给国家信托公司来维护,效果会更好。