Hawkstone Hall

Hawkstone Hall is a 43,400 square feet (4,030 m2)[1] early 18th-century country mansion near Hodnet and Weston-under-Redcastle, Shropshire, England which was more recently occupied as the pastoral centre of a religious organisation for many years.

It is there said that 'Maud, or Matilde, wife of William the Conqueror, gave to John de Audley and to his heirs, the lands about Red Castle, in the county of Salop, for certain services done by him to the state."

[5] In the Tudor period the senior house at Hawkstone is recorded as being in ruins and Hill built his house at Soulton, [4] and it is understood Hill recruited the manor for his landscape gardens but did not live there.

George Whiteley had the hall renovated and the wings reduced in length by William Tomkinsons of Liverpool, supervised by H.P.

The hall was acquired after Lord Marchamley's death by the Roman Catholic Redemptorist Order in 1926 and, until 1973, was a seminary.

[8] There are extensive landscape gardens sharing the sandstone cliffs on which Hawkstone Hall sits.

Hawkstone Hall
Arms of Audley Family, who held the Redcastle
Arms of the Audley family, who held the Red Castle
Eighteenth century view of the hall, before the composition was altered by later work
Eighteenth century view of the hall, before the composition was altered by later work
Sir Rowland Hill's house at Soulton: the land at Hawkstone was recruited for use in the landscape gardens addressing this house in the Tudor period - a time when the senior house at Hawkstone was in ruins.
Sir Rowland Hill's house at Soulton: the land at Hawkstone was recruited for use in the landscape gardens addressing this house in the Tudor period - a time when the senior house at Hawkstone was in ruins.
Sir Rowland Hill of Soulton bought the land of the manor in 1556.
Sir Rowland Hill of Soulton bought the land of the manor in 1556.
The gardens
Hawkstone Abbey Farm, visible from the driveway and part of the estate in years gone by, now home to award winning cheese production