Higher Downs (14)
Turn left again into Higher Downs.
Juliana Ewing who wrote children’s stories lived at number 14 in the late 1870s where there is a Blue Plaque. Alison Uttley famous for her Little Grey Rabbit stories lived next door at Downs House, number 13 from 1924 to 1938 where again there is a Blue Plaque. T A Coward the naturalist was born at number 8 in 1867.
Opposite, the four
imposing Victorian houses dating from 1853 sit in a charming retreat, being the carriage way
entrance to the 1848 listed Bowdon Downs Congregational Church which is in the Perpendicular
Gothic style.
The listed Altrincham/Dunham boundary stone of 1840 is in the garden wall of number 1 at the bottom right, indicating the boundary of the ancient (1290) Borough of Altrincham with Dunham Massey. Over it is a benchmark.
Just around the corner in St. John's Road Helen Allingham lived at Levenhurst.