Dudley was executed by the king for treason and the land passed to his widow Elizabeth who later married Arthur Plantagenet.

Edmund being the eldest child inherited his father's estate which later passed to his brother John Copper when he died.

The present house although has a date of 1670 on the front wall, was first constructed in 1545 of red brick with blue diapering and sandstone dressings.

It is also believed that Oliver Cromwell rested at the Hall overnight as a guest of the then owner John Molyneux who had declared for Parliament after the siege at Lathom House.

The ghosts are of a young Roman Catholic girl who was hanged by a priest as evidence of his conversion to Protestantism.

Lady Lilford reported that on one occasion her guests departed due to their experience of the ghosts.