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Oulton Park

Introduction

Features of Oulton Park include a lake, woodland, formal garden and kitchen garden.

Oulton Park is an 18th-century landscape park which is now used for motor racing. Features include a large serpentine lake with woodland planting, a relict formal garden, a folly, and a kitchen garden.
History

The park was first created during the 18th century.

George Ormerod's 'History of Cheshire' (1819) notes that the owner was Sir John Grey-Egerton. Ormerod states that 'The magnificent trees which now adorn the park and pleasure grounds were, with the exception of the oaks and a few others, planted about a hundred and twenty years ago, under the superintendence of the celebrated landscape gardener, William Emes, and his pupil Webb. The park is enclosed by a wall and contains 300 head of deer and other cattle: it adjoins to the southern side of the Forest of Delamere, and like that posesses some undulation of surface, gradually subsiding into the flat part of Cheshire in the south. The grounds were laid out by Eames and Webb as his pupil. (Thomas Helsby adds 'and subsequently by Gilpin').

In 1926 the house burned down. During World War 2 the site was used as an Army staging camp. After the War the site deteriorated. It was taken over in the 1950s by the Mid-Cheshire Car Club. The Club built a racing track and international racing soon followed. The site remains as a motor racing centre to the present day (2007).

Period

18th Century (1701 to 1800)

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Features & Designations

Features

  • Lake
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  • Folly
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  • Kitchen Garden
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  • House (featured building)
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Key Information

Type

Park

Purpose

Recreational/sport

Principal Building

Commercial

Period

18th Century (1701 to 1800)

Survival

Part: standing remains

Open to the public

Yes

Civil Parish

Little Budworth

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