Rode Hall, Crewe, England

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

A country house with formal gardens of 1861 by William Andrews Nesfield and a landscape park created by John Webb in the early 19th century after Humphry Repton prepared a Red Book in 1790.

DESCRIPTION

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Rode Hall stands about 2 kilometres north-east of Alsager, and its park is bounded on its short, west side by the A50 main road from Alsager to Knutsford. Around its north and east perimeter runs the minor road (Pool Side, Church Lane) from Alsager to Scholar Green. To the south the boundary follows field edges. The area here registered is about 88 hectares.

REFERENCES

G Carter et al, Humphry Repton, Landscape Gardener 1752-1818 (1982), p 150

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: Cheshire sheet 57, 1st edition published 1882

OS 25" to 1 mile: Cheshire sheet 57.4, 2nd edition published 1909

Archival items

The following items are held (1997) in a private collection at Rode Hall: H Repton, Red Book for Rode, 1790

Plan of Odd Rode Demesne, nd (mid C18)

W A Nesfield, Plan of proposed works at Rode Hall, 1861

Description written: August 1997

Edited: April 1999