Introduction
Batchacre Hall has an associated landscape park. The land is flat and intensively farmed. The tree cover has also eroded. Richard Whitworth, who had an interest in canals, wished the Liverpool Canal to cross his land, but construction was eventually aborted. Whitworth also devised naval battles on the lake and re-erected the portico from Broughton Hall in the woods to the south of the Hall.
Batchacre Hall has an associated landscape park. The land is flat and intensively farmed, and the tree cover has eroded.
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Batchacre Hall is a livery and part of an established working farm.
- History
Batchacre Hall was remodelled during the mid-18th century. A Georgian facade was put on a much earlier building.
Richard Whitworth, who had an interest in canals, wished the Liverpool Canal to cross his land, but construction was eventually aborted. Whitworth also devised naval battles on the lake and re-erected the portico from Broughton Hall in the woods to the south of the Hall.
Period
18th Century
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- Features & Designations
Features
- Lake
- Folly
- Description: The portico from Broughton Hall was placed in the woods to the south of Batchacre Hall. It originally dates back to 1584.
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- Key Information
Type
Park
Period
18th Century
Survival
Part: ground/below ground level remains
Civil Parish
High Offley
- References
References
- Pevsner, N. {The Buildings of England: Staffordshire} (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974), p. 67 The Buildings of England: Staffordshire