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Bishop Estate East and Darling House Trails This Woodbridge Town Property known as the Directions and Parking: Bishop Estate/Darling House trail is located on the Litchfield Turnpike. The house is now home The main entrance to the trails and parking is Recreational Trails to the Amity & Woodbridge Historical Society. located adjacent to the Darling House located South Central Connecticut Thomas Darling (1720-1789) played a at 1907 Litchfield Turnpike (Route 69). significant role in colonial Connecticut and counted among prominent citizens as Benjamin Permitted/Prohibited Activities: Franklin, Ezra Stiles, Roger Sherman, and Benedict Arnold among his friends and This land is for passive recreational use only. No Bishop Estate associates. He studied theology at Yale motorized vehicles are permitted. Only hiking University in New Haven, CT, graduated in and bicycles. Dogs are permitted on leash. 1740, and was licensed to preach in 1743. Please bag and pick up all dog waste. Hunting East and During his years in New Haven he was a or trapping is prohibited. Fishing is allowed in manufacturer, merchant, Justice of the Peace, the West River. Darling House and “entrepreneur.” He ran a Rope Walk, helped set up the first printing press in New Haven, tried to establish a glass business, and Trails was a deputy to the General Assembly. The Bishop Estate/Darling House is located just south of Lake Dawson (a Regional Water Authority Property) and just west of the West Rock Ridge State Park on the eastern border of Woodbridge. The trail also connects to a Hiking Pets on Bicycling Fishing hike along the West Rock Ridge and then to Leash the Regicides Trail (a CT Blue Blazed Trail). The Cross Regicides Trail is named after the three judges country who imposed the death sentence on Charles I Skiing of England in 1649 and fled to New England in 1660. Two of these men, William Goffe and For more information about this location, Edward Whalley, hid from agents of the king in contact: a rock cave on West Rock Ridge from May 15 Town of Woodbridge to June 11, 1661. They returned to the cave in (203) 389-3400 October 1664, after hiding out in Milford, and then fled to Hadley, Mass. The area is named www.woodbridgect.org Judges Cave in recognition of this historic event. Questions regarding this brochure can be addressed to The Darling homestead is 160 acres of rolling South Central Regional Council of Governments meadow with surrounding woodlands. The trail Phone: (203) 234-7555/Fax: (203) 234-9850 includes numerous stone wall crossings and a E-mail: [email protected] bridge crossing over the West River. When Scan QR Code to access the South Central Regional Council of Thomas Darling decided to leave New Haven Governments Recreational Trails Webpage to pursue a country squire’s life, he hired Abiel Gray of West Hartford, CT to build his new home. Gray took two years (1772-1774) to Woodbridge, CT complete the project. The Gambrel roofed structure is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Many of the interior’s furnishings are Darling family pieces, as the house and grounds were owned by the family until 1973. The house can be viewed by appointment only. Bishop Estate East To Quinnipiac Trail Bethany, Hamden B lu Cheshire and Prospect e T Lookout Point r and Darling House a i l s i) D m r .64 (0 East Branch of Naugatuck Trail Quarry Lake Dawson ) Photo By Amity and Woodbridge Historical Society i m 2 .7 Trail Description: (0 9 6 Easy or Difficult Hike y Regicides Trail w H East Branch of Blue and Blue/Yellow Trail: 0.64 miles. Hard Hike/ e t a Naugatuck Trail t Difficult Climb. The blue trail starts off on a gentle S slope through RWA land and ascends up over the ) mountain. About 0.25 miles climb up rocky terrain i W i) m 16 m (0. Baldwin Dr almost 300 ft. e s 24 . t ( 0 Red Trail: 1 mile. Easy Hike. Minor slopes. Can be both 0 ( ( . R 0 09 . 22 wet and dry. i v m e m i r ) i ) Total trails distance is approx. 2.43 miles (0. 10 mi) ) Hamden i Woodbridge Legend m 15 . mi) 0 (0.16 Parking Bench ( Trailhead Bridge Darling House Stone Wall 1907 Litchfield Turnpike ) i Blue/Yellow Blaze (North Summit Trail) m 4 .9 0 Blue Blaze (Naugatuck Trail) ( Blue Blaze (Regicides Trail) Cla rk R d Red Blaze (Southern Loop Trail) p Ra m Green Blaze (Shortcut Trail) (0.63 mi) Red/Blue Blaze (Loop Connector Trail) Wetlands Land Trust Property North r D West R p i Town Property o v h e Baldwin Dr W E is r B State Property 0 0.25 Kilometers Lake Trail Data and Content was provided by the RWA and Mike Walter, Town Trail Master. RWA Property 0 0.07 Miles S Wintergreen The Trail Map and Brochure was prepared by SCRCOG (2016). .
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