Locko Park

Locko Park is a privately owned 18th-century country house in between the villages of Stanley and Ockbrook in the borough of Erewash, near Spondon, Derbyshire, England.

The main south facing block of the present house, built about 1725 out of locally sourced Keuper sandstone[3] for the member of parliament, Robert Ferne,[4] has three storeys and nine bays and a substantial Tuscan porch.

[5] The current house was built on or close to the site of a hospital of the Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem, which was in existence at least as far back as 1296.

The order was dedicated to the care of lepers, and the name Locko derives from the old French word for rags, loques,[6] in reference to the strips of lint that were applied to sores.

In 1792, he employed William Emes, who was responsible for the gardens of Calke Abbey and Kedleston Hall, to landscape the park; the actual work, including the creation of the 16 acre lake, was carried out by Emes' partner, John Webb.

Locko Park from the southwest, 1898