Curzon Park

Although the opening of Grosvenor Bridge in 1832 had improved access, it was the completion of the North Wales Coast Line to Chester which prompted Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe to develop the aptly-named "Curzon Park" in the mid-1840s on private farmland situated between Hough Green and the river.

Although the plan was to attract wealthy merchants from Liverpool, most of the early home owners were business people and professionals from Chester.

With the development of Curzon Park, the City of Chester corporation began auctioning off land it owned on the north side of Hough Green as individual plots.

In conjunction with the development of the eastern end of Curzon Park, large detached houses were also constructed around Westminster Avenue, a tree-lined road just south of Hough Green.

The avenue originally complimented the main lodge entrance to Curzon Park at the junction with Overleigh Road.