Dorfold Hall, Nantwich, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

A 19th century landscape park and formal gardens by William Andrews Nesfield, associated with a 17th century and later country house.

DESCRIPTION

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

The parkland which surrounds Dorfold Hall begins almost immediately west of Nantwich. To the north of the park is the village of Acton, and the road there from to Nantwich forms the northern boundary of the park. The eastern boundary of the park follows the Shropshire Union Canal, and that to the south Marsh Lane, which runs west from Nantwich. To the west the registered area is largely defined by field boundaries. The area here registered is about 125 hectares.

REFERENCES

Country Life, 24 (31 October 1908), pp 594-606

Cheshire Life, (February 1954; February 1984)

P de Figueiredo and J Treuherz, Cheshire Country Houses (1988), pp 77-80

J Furse, Dorfold Hall, Nantwich, Cheshire. A Report on the History of the Gardens (1999)

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: Cheshire sheet 55, 1st edition published 1882

Cheshire sheet 56, 1st edition published 1882

OS 25" to 1 mile: Cheshire sheet 55.16, 1st edition published 1875

Archival items

Plan of Dorfold demesne, 1789, (Dorfold Hall private collection)

Description written: August 1997

Edited: April 1999