Cheswardine Manor
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:00 michaelh |
This is intended as a record of all premises and locations connected to the former Cheswardine Estate, comprising Cheswardine Hall and numerous farms, houses, cottages and other agricultural buildings built or purchased by the Donaldson-Hudson families between 1833 and 1950. For further background information please contact me |
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Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:15 Alan Wright |
The eight sided horse gin in the field at Chipnall.![]() This is the inside of the horse gin at Chipnall. ![]() The Gardener's Cottage and The Bothies at Cheswardine Hall. ![]() All these images are of properties on the former Cheswardine Hall Estate in north east Shropshire. For further information please contact me. |
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:31 michaelh |
Foxbridge Farm, Little Soudley Formerly one of the farms on the Cheswardine Hall Estate. ![]() |
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:34 michaelh |
Cheswardine Hall from the gate in the walled garden![]() |
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:57 michaelh |
More pictures from the Cheswardine Hall Estate![]() ![]() ![]() These three are of the Gardener's Cottage in the walled garden. ![]() Yew Tree Farm. This was the home farm when the estate exceeded 2000 acres in size ![]() ![]() ![]() The water tower used also for the storage of game shot on the estate prior tobeing used in the hall kitchens |
Sat, 24 May 2008 21:39 michaelh |
![]() This picture shows the former railway bridge on the farm lane leading to Bellaport Old Hall, at Norton in Hales, Shropshire. Please refer to the website about Cheswardine Manor, where the reason for the inclusion of this photograph in the Cheswardine Manor gallery, is explained in Ruth Donaldson-Hudson's story "The Family of Donaldson". http://cheswardinemanor.googlepages.com/home |
Fri, 6 Jun 2008 17:15 michaelh |
![]() Lilleshall House, Port Hill, Shrewsbury, which lies directly opposite the west end of the suspension bridge crossing the River Severn from The Quarry. This was the house where Muriel (nee Balfour) the widow of Ralph Charles Donaldson-Hudson moved to after having lived at Ley Grange, Shrewsbury since moving from Cheswardine Hall. She died there on the 30th October 1956. |
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:24 michaelh |
![]() This is a view looking ESE inside an old settling chamber on what was probably the main sewer leading from the the Cheswardine Hall that was demolished in 1875 to make way for the current Cheswardine Hall. |
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:07 MichaelHendry |
Estate Cottages in Tag Lane, Chipnall This pair of cottages were some of the first to be erected by Charles Donaldson-Hudson. That under the left-hand eave show his initials CDH, whilst that under the right hand eave shows the date 1869. ![]() |
Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:21 MichaelHendry |
Park Heath Farm![]() This farm was one of a number purchased by Charles Donaldson-Hudson from Lord Shrewsbury in 1863, when the latter sold off a large number of properties in the Soudley area of the parish of Cheswardine. It was subsequently sold at an estate sale on the 30th January 1918 to the sitting tenant, Mr Charles Atkin. |
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