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Tatton Park by Mike Peel- Wikimedia commons 

Top Ten Amazing Facts about Tatton Park

Tatton Park is a historic estate in Cheshire, England Owned by the National Trust, and is administered jointly with Cheshire East Council. It contains a Tatton Hall, a mansion, a farm, a deer park covering 2,000 acres, Tatton Park Gardens, Tatton Old Hall, and a medieval manor house.

Since 1999 it has hosted North West England’s annual Royal Horticultural Society Flower shows. It is a well-known visitor attraction that hosts hundreds of shows annually. In the article are the top ten amazing facts about the Tatton Park.

1. The Egerton Family is the only family that held possession of the house for the longest time

Apart from the fact that the Egerton Family was the last private owner of the Tatton Park, the family held its possession for the longest time of 360 years. Other families like the Brereton family held possession of the house for 18 years only.

The Stanely family was the one who built the house in the 15th century. Actually, the Egerton family and the Brereton family had a connection through family because in the History of the house it’s stated that Sir Thomas Egerton purchased the house from his half-sister Dorothy Brereton.

2. The Tatton Park influenced the social status of the Egerton family

When Wilbraham Egerton owned the house, the house received prominent visitors like the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1887, and the King of Persia and the Crown Prince of Siam in the 1890s. The visits made the social status of the Egerton family reach the summit.

3. Renovations of the Tatton Park

During the 1770s Samuel Egerton commissioned Architect Samuel Wyatt who was helped by his nephew Lewis William Wyatt to produce designs for a Neo-Classical Mansion.

Although Samuel Egerton died before the first stage was completed which ended in 1791, during the tenure of Wilbraham Egerton who was then in possession of the Tatton Park. The scale was reduced but the house looked more fashionable and very elegant. In the 1860s an upper floor was added to the family wing and in 1884 the Family entrance Hall was built.

The house became the only mansion outside London that benefited from electrical energy to replace steam engines that produced power.

4. The Tatton Park played a great role during World War II

Paratroop Memorial Stone by Roger Gittins- Wikimedia commons

During the war, all allied paratroops were done here. No.1 Parachute Training School RAF was situated nearby RAF Ringway. Lord Egerton readily accepted his property because his friend Maurice Egerton, a pre-World War I aviator asked for his cooperation to use his land.

The first live test of parachute jumps was made on 13th July 1940 by RAF instructors. Approximately 60,000 UK troops, and several European countries, special agents included trained in the park. A free-standing stone memorial to Tatton’s major Wartime role in parachuting is located 0.6 miles North West of the Hall.

5. Listed buildings in Tatton Park

Rostherne Lodge by Anthony Parkes-

Only Tatton Hall is listed as Grade I. Other buildings like Old Hall, Rostherne Lodge, Upper Terrace wall, The Flight Steps between the Intermediate and Upper Terraces, the Pool  Wall and Triton Wall of the Lower Terrace, the wall and balustrade of the Lower Terrace, the wall of the Service Courts, and Eastern and Western Vases of the Lower Terrace are grouped as Grade II listed buildings in Tatton Park

6. Tatton Park is open to the Public

Before he died, Lord Egerton drafted a will of his property, The Tatton Park. In his will, the Tatton Park was left in the hands of the National Trust instead of a cash dividend in his death duties.

His trustees sold the estate, and Cheshire County Council committed to a 99-year lease with an endowment to ensure the nation benefited from its preservation.

7. Tatton Park has various different gardens

Japanese Garden by royal rear –

The Gardens are more natural and formal. The Italian Garden is a formal garden of two terraces and was designed by Joseph Paxton and laid out by Edward Milner in 1847.

The Walled garden which was restored in 2000 grows a variety of fruits and vegetables grown in the Edwardian era.

Other gardens are the Kitchen gardens, pleasure gardens which are used for family recreation activities, gardens  Charlotte’s Garden, the Rose Garden, the Tower Garden, and the Japanese Garden which was constructed in the 1910s.

8. Tatton Park has the Maurice Egerton Exhibition Room

Maurice during his 10- year ownership of the Tatton Park never left behind his camera. In the Room are photographs of the first Grand Prix motor racing, his involvement in pioneering with the Wright Brothers, earliest aerial images taken from hot air balloons, and exploring the Yukon and expeditions in Africa.

The exhibition has sublimely anomalous and diverse stockpiled throngs of Lord Egerton during his travels around the world. The Japanese Garden is one of the exhibitions.

9. Halls of the Tatton Park

Tatton Old Hall by Peter I. Vardy – Wikimedia Commons

Tatton Old Hall was originally made of timber but later replaced by brick. It is timber-flamed with brick infill and a thatched roof.

Tatton Hall built on a separate site for the Egerton Family contains much furniture made for its occupants by the family firm Gillows of Lancaster. In the hall is a large collection of paintings, the majority of them being portraits of the Egerton family. Tatton Hall is a member of the Historic Houses Association.

10. The Tatton Park contains a Parkland

Tatton Park Parkland by Bill Boaden –

The design of the 2,000 acres landscaped deer park was inspired by the Ideas of Humphrey Repton. The public can only access 1000 acres of the park. It was created by a royal charter in 1920 and the deers being the inhabitants since then. The species of deer in the park are fallow deer and red deer. The park is registered at Grade II in Historic Parks and Gardens.

            Tatton Park as a visitor attraction, is quite an interesting place worth to buy tickets for. A parking space is offered with a children’s adventure playground beside the park. In Peak season the park is open daily from 10 am to 6 pm being the last entry while in Recession season the park is closed.