Shugborough, Stafford, England

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

A pleasure ground and landscape park of the mid- to late 18th century with buildings in the Chinese and Greek Revival styles, associated with a country house. The formal garden layout by W A Nesfield dates from around 1855.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Shugborough lies about 6 kilometres east of Stafford, and the park is partly bounded to the south by the A513 from Stafford to Rugeley. To the north-east the park is separated from the village of Great Haywood by the A51. The boundary along Shugborough's north-west side is formed by the River Sow. At the northernmost point of the park this joins with the Trent, which passes through the east side of the park and for about one kilometre forms its boundary. The highest ground lies to the west, where Stafford Plantation occupies the lower slopes of the Satnall Hills.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Country Life, 115 (25 February 1954), pp 510-13; (15 April 1954), pp 1126-9; (22 April 1954), pp 1220-3; 150 (2 September 1971), pp 546-8; 161 (10 March 1977), pp 578-81

Archaeol Journal 120, (1963), pp 285-7

F Stitt, 'Shugborough: The End of a Village', Collections for a History of Staffordshire 6, (4th ser), (1970), p 86 and following

P Connor, Oriental Architecture in the West (1979), pp 51-2

A Survey of Shugborough Hall Park & Garden, (Manpower Services Commission 1984)

S E Pybus, Shugborough: A Guide to the Monuments (1984)

G Jackson-Stops, An English Arcadia 1600-1900 (1992), pp 89-91

Shugborough, guidebook (National Trust 1996)

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1890/1894

OS 25" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1901

Archival items

Anson family and estate papers (D615/E[H]), (Staffordshire Record Office)  

Description written: July 1997

Amended: November 1998

Edited: September 1999