Arley Hall, Northwich, Cheshire, England

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

18th century and later gardens and pleasure grounds including what may be England's earliest herbaceous border, and a later 18th century landscape park laid out by William Emes, associated with a country house.

 DESCRIPTION

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Arley Hall and its park stand about 8 kilometres north of Northwich, east of the estate village of Arley and north of Great Budworth, on minor roads east of the main A559 from Northwich to Warrington. The park, gently rolling in generally fairly level countryside, is bounded to the north by Back Lane, but otherwise its boundaries follow field and wood edges. The registered area is about 200 hectares.

REFERENCES

Country Life, 16 (24 December 1904), pp 942-950; 160 (7 December 1976), pp 950-952

Arley Hall, guidebook, (C Foster 1982)

P de Figueiredo and J Treuherz, Cheshire Country Houses (1988), pp 23-27

Arley Hall Gardens, guidebook, (E Ashbrook, 2nd ed 1989)

E Ashbrook, The Story of a Garden: Arley 1831-1991 (1991)

Garden History 24, (1996), pp 255-271

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: Cheshire sheet 26, 1st edition published 1881

OS 25" to 1 mile: Cheshire sheet 26.6, 3rd edition published 1910

Archival items

The Arley Hall archives are held at Arley Hall and (for pre-1814 papers) at the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester (Warburton Muniments).