Introduction
Features of Somerford Park include a formal garden, a woodland garden and a chapel.
Only parts of Somerford Park's features remain. The formal and woodland gardens remain, along with the family chapel in the surviving parkland. The kitchen garden and icehouse have also survived but are in a ruinous state.
- Visitor Access, Directions & Contacts
Telephone
01260 299888Website
https://somerfordpark.co.ukAccess contact details
The Office and Reception are clearly signed, after paying you will be directed to the facility you have booked.
Directions
Situated on the main A54 midway between Congleton and Holmes Chapel.
- History
Somerford Park was created between 1800 and 1819 as a private residence.
George Ormerod notes in his 'History of Cheshire' (1819) that the owner was C.W.J. Shakerley. Ormerod describes the estate:
'Somerford Hall, a spacious brick built mansion stands in a park well timbered, and bounded on the north by the stream of the Dane. On the south side was formerly a large artificial lake, which burst its dam a few years ago, and the site has been recently planted over.
A large portion of Somerford Hall was built by the present proprietor from 1800, from designs by Mr. Robinson of Middleton in Lancashire. The grounds were laid out by Mr. Davenport and Mr. Webb.'
Recently, the house has been demolished.
- Associated People
- Features & Designations
Features
- Icehouse
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- Kitchen Garden
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- Chapel
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- House (featured building)
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- Key Information
Type
Park
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Survival
Part: ground/below ground level remains
Civil Parish
Brereton
- References
References
- Davies, J. {Landscape Gardening in Ormerod's 'History of Cheshire'} (Cheshire Gardens Trust, 2011) Landscape Gardening in Ormerod's 'History of Cheshire'
- Ormerod, G {The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester ... incorporated with a republication of King's Vale, Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities. L.P} (London: Lackington, 1819) The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester ... incorporated with a republication of King's Vale, Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities. L.P
Contributors
E. Bennis and J. Dyke