Arley Hall, Northwich, Cheshire, England

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

HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT

Arley formed part of the extensive Warburton holdings from the 12th century. In 1469 Sir Piers Warburton moved from Warburton to Arley and built a new, E-plan, house. That house was cased in the mid 18th century by Sir Peter Warburton (d 1774), the fourth baronet, who also laid out new gardens and set out the landscape park. Sir Peter Warburton, the fifth and last baronet (d 1813), further enlarged the park in the 1780s. Dying without issue, he left Arley to his great-nephew, the eight-year-old Rowland Egerton, whose father (Reverend Rowland Egerton) added Warburton to his name. Rowland Egerton ran the estate from 1825 until his death in 1891, during that time rebuilding the Hall, laying out its gardens, and undertaking a good deal of estate building. Arley remains (1997) in private hands.