Crewe Hall, Crewe, Cheshire, England

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

Degraded mid 19th century formal gardens by William Andrews Nesfield associated with a country house, with the remains of a landscaped park on which Lancelot Brown (before 1768), William Emes (before 1768), John Webb and Humphry Repton (1791) are all said to have worked.

DESCRIPTION

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Crewe Hall stands about 3 kilometres south-east of Crewe. In the 1980s a new road system was laid out along the southern edge of the park, which is now bounded by the A5020 from Crewe to Stoke-on-Trent, via Junction 16 of the M6. Minor local roads run around the east and north sides of the park. To the west the park boundary follows the western edge of Rookery Wood. The area here registered is about 200 hectares.

REFERENCES

G Ormerod, The History of Cheshire iii, (1819), pp 166-170

The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, (7 February 1863), p 124

Gardeners' Chronicle, (17 January 1885), pp 75-76; (17 December 1892), pp 737-741

Country Life, 11 (20 March 1902), pp 400-408; 33 (3 May 1913), pp 634-640

Burke, Peerage (1913), p 529

N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Cheshire (1971), pp 191-195

D Stroud, Capability Brown (1975), pp 207-208, 222

J Harris, The Artist and the Country House (1979), p 142

G Carter et al, Humphry Repton, Landscape gardener 1752-1818 (1982), p 149

B Elliott, Victorian Gardens (1986), p 139

P de Figueiredo and J Treuherz, Cheshire Country Houses (1988), pp 66-71

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: Cheshire sheet 56, 1st edition published 1882

    Cheshire sheet 57, 1st edition published 1882

    Cheshire sheet 56, 2nd edition published 1911

    Cheshire sheet 57, 2nd edition published 1911

    Cheshire sheet 56, 3rd edition published 1938

    Cheshire sheet 57, 3rd edition published 1938

OS 25" to 1 mile: Cheshire sheet 56.12, 1st edition published 1876

    Cheshire sheet 57.9, 1st edition published 1876

Archival items

The Crewe Hall archives are said to have been burned in the mid C20 (information from Dr Keith Goodway)

Description written: August 1997

Edited: April 1999