The Norman Earls of Chester had a hunting lodge or summer palace at Darnhall in Over parish. There was an enclosed area where deer and wild boar were kept to be hunted by the Earl and his guests. It was there that the last earl met his death in 1237.
The Norman Earls of Chester had a hunting lodge at Darnhall, a location in Over parish, where they would hunt deer and wild boar with their guests. The last Earl died there in 1237.