Tatton Park
One of the UK’s most complete historic estates home to a medieval Old Hall, neo-classical Mansion, landscaped gardens, a rare-breed farm and 1,000 acres of deer park.
Knutsford, Cheshire
Tatton Park is one of the UK’s most complete historic estates. It is home to a Medieval Old Hall, Neo-Classical Mansion, 50 acres of landscaped gardens, a rare-breed farm and 1,000 acres of deer park.
From the turn of the 18th century the Egerton family made a home on this site. An earlier house was extensively re-modelled in the Neo-Classical style, between 1780 and 1813 by the architects Samuel Wyatt (1737-1807) and Lewis William Wyatt (1777–1853). The rich furnishings of the Tatton Park Mansion and its important collection of paintings and books reflect the growing wealth and status of the Egerton family at the end of the 18th and during the 19th centuries.
Standing within its own grounds in a quiet wooded area of the park, the medieval Old Hall has a special atmosphere. A site of historical and archaeological importance within the Northwest of England, it takes visitors on an evocative journey through its 500 year history as a dwelling place – from medieval manor house to Victorian Gamekeepers cottage.
The 50 acres of landscaped gardens at Tatton Park are the product of almost 300 years of cultivation. Each successive owner from the Egerton family played a part in the evolution of the Gardens by seeking the expertise of the leading landscape architects of the time. As one of the most picturesque gardens in England, it shows visitors today an almost complete picture of how it would have looked in Edwardian times.
The Farm is set in a sheltered corner of the Park known as Tatton Dale. In it’s heyday the Farm was the heart of the vast Egerton estates, feeding family, guests and staff at the Mansion, as well as servicing the park and the outlying properties.