Sandon Hall

[1] Margaret, daughter of one of the descendants of Sir William Stafford, carried the manor of Sandon by marriage to Thomas Erdeswicke in the 12th year of the reign of Edward III (1339).

[8] A lawsuit concerning the estate[9] was the pretext for a fatal duel between the 4th Duke and Lord Mohun in 1712,[10] which led to the deaths of both men.

The Hamiltons having torn down the interesting old home of the Erdiswickes, only to enjoy its replacement for less than a decade, the new owners found further causes for dissatisfaction, and retained the architect Samuel Wyatt to carry out large extensions and improvements.

[12] But the innovations of Enlightenment could not escape the retribution of the offended spirit of Antiquity: the house was severely damaged by fire in 1848, and was then rebuilt in 1852 by Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby to a neo-Jacobean design by architect William Burn.

[13] In the park stands a Doric column erected in memory of William Pitt the Younger in 1806.