Aqualate Hall

Aqualate Hall, a 20th-century country house, is located in Forton, Staffordshire, England, some 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the market town of Newport, Shropshire and 10 miles (16 km) west of the county town of Stafford.

[1] The site of the house may have been occupied in Roman times as two food vessels were found during drainage of the grounds.

[9] The name Aqualate is from Anglo-Saxon Āc-gelād, possibly in the sense "difficult passage over wet ground by the oak trees"; there is much wet and boggy ground in the area and a mere, although Eilert Ekwall suggests Old English Āc-gelãd meaning "oak stream".

[1] The north front has a two-storey polygonal porch, two projecting canted bays and is decorated with armorial shields and a carved head which used to be on a gatepost.

[1] In the grounds can be found stables, two Gothic lodge-houses, and a red brick house with an attached castellated tower.