Sandon Village

Sandon Village

Sandon is about 4.5 miles (7 km) northeast of Stafford. The village is in the Trent Valley on the A51 road. On 6 September 1989 the parish was renamed from "Sandon" to "Sandon & Burston".[2]

There is a rectangular moated site in Sandon Park, about 186 yards (170 m) northeast of the parish church.[3] The site measures about 110 yards (100 m) by 87 yards (80 m) and the moat varies from 11 yards (10 m) to 16 yards (15 m) wide.[3] It was the site of the parish's manor house, which was the home of the Erdeswick family from 1338 until the middle of the 17th century.[3] The moat site is a scheduled monument.[3]

In 1776 Nathaniel Ryder was ennobled as Baron Harrowby. He commissioned the architect Samuel Wyatt to transform the manor house into Sandon Hall and the landscape gardener William Emes to create a 400 acres (160 ha) park.[4] Creating the park involved demolishing Sandon village, which was close to the house and parish church, and building a new village further away from the house and church.

In 1848 a workman on the roof of Sandon Hall accidentally set the building on fire, which caused such damage that it had to be demolished.[4] The current Sandon Hall is a Jacobethan country house of nine bays built for Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby in 1852.[5] It was designed by the Scots Baronial architect William Burn — apart from the conservatory, which was added in 1864.[5] Sandon Hall is a Grade II* listed building.[5]

SOURCE: Wikipedia

Visit Website