Burwarton Hall, Ludlow, England

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

HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT

The Hollands first acquired land in Burwarton in the later 15th century, and over the next 300 years added to this holding by purchase, exchange and marriage. In the early 17th century Alice, the Holland heiress, married Henry Baugh, who held extensive estates in his own right, and in the late 18th century Harriet, daughter and heiress of Benjamin Baugh, married Gustavus, 6th Viscount Boyne. Throughout the 19th century the Boyne estate was further enlarged, and around Burwarton a compact holding was built up which enabled the construction of a new house in a landscape park. Some 8500 acres (about 3500 hectares) of the estate were sold in 1919, reducing it to a core comprising the three parishes of Burwarton, Cleobury North and Aston Botterell, and including all the eastern slopes of Brown Clee Hill. The Burwarton Estate, still one of the county's largest, remains (1999) in private hands.