Burwarton Hall, Ludlow, England

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

Formal gardens and landscape park associated with a country house extended from mid-19th century to take advantage of the rugged upland scenery of Brown Clee Hill.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Burwarton House stands in its park about 300 metres north-west of the village of Burwarton. This lies on the B4364 from Bridgnorth, 13 kilometres to the north-east, to Ludlow, 15 kilometres to the south-west. The park lies on the lower eastern slope of Brown Clee Hill (at 540 metres the highest summit in England south of the Pennines), the north end of the Clee Hills. It is bounded to the east by the B4364, and to the south by Banbury Lane (a metalled track), which turns west off this. To the north and west the boundary largely follows field edges. The registered area is roughly 400 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

S Leighton, Shropshire Houses Past & Present (1901), p 41 and plate

Country Life, 127 (17 March 1960), pp 582-4

Burwarton Estate Heritage Landscape Management Plan (no date, early 1990s)

P A Stamper, Historic Parks and Gardens of Shropshire (1996), pp 105-6

J V Hinton, Aston Botterell, Burwarton, Cleobury North (no date, around 1996)

Maps

C and J Greenwood, Map of Shropshire, 1827

Tithe map for Burwarton, 1841 (Shropshire Records and Research Centre)

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1883, published 1891

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1883, published 1884; 2nd edition surveyed 1902, published 1903