Hagley Hall, Rugeley

After it came into the ownership of the Curzon family, the estate became known as Hagley Park and appeared under that name in 19th century gazetteers, where it was described as "a fine old house and grounds".

In about 1392, Thomas de Thomenhorn, keeper of the royal forest of Cannock Chase, built a moated manor that probably stood on the island in the middle of what is now Elmore Park, Rugeley.

Landscaping of the grounds included building an ornamental bridge over the Rising Brook,[3] an affluent of the River Trent, and also making weirs along it course.

There was also a folly under the house in the form of several interconnecting, elaborately columned chambers leading to a basilica cut into the sandstone.

[6] After 1864 Hagley Park passed to a succession of new owners and during World War I was a centre for the Officers' Training Corps.