Hodnet Hall

Hodnet Old Hall was a timber-framed manor house surrounded by the park which was recorded on Christopher Saxton's Map of Shropshire in the late 16th century.

On Richard Heber's death in 1766 his brother, named Reginald, who had taken Holy Orders and was co-rector of the parish of Malpas in Cheshire, inherited the estate.

It was the boyhood home of Robert Heber-Percy, known as "the Mad Boy" and "an English eccentric in the grand tradition".

[4] It was created in 1922 when rare trees, shrubs and a chain of seven lakes and pools was added.

[5] They are open to the public on Wednesdays,Sundays and Bank Holidays from early March to late October.