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Attingham’s Deer Park was created in 1798 as part of Thomas, 2nd Lord Berwick’s grand improvements to the Mansion and grounds. The deer have held a special place in Attingham's heart ever since. Following on from Thomas, the deer herd are now carefully managed by the National Trust.
The Berwicks only lived at Attingham for 200 years but their legacy lives on in this Shropshire country estate. From ancient trees and wildflowers, to native species, the parkland at Attingham includes woods, a deer park, and the River Tern. Attingham is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
Attingham Park. An earlier building known as Tern Hall was converted into the grand mansion of Attingham in 1783-5 by George Steuart for Noel Hill, 1st Lord Berwick. The result is a Palladian house of parade with French Neo-classical embellishments. The exterior is dominated by a 3-storey Ionic portico with colonnaded corridors to pavilions on ...
Basement with chanelled rustication and moulded top, moulded band linking ground-floor windows, first-floor cill band, moulded second-floor cill band, moulded cornice with blocking course above, and 8 symmetrically placed ridge stacks with moulded cornices. 11 bays, 4:3:4 rhythm; glazing bar sashes; round-arched basement windows; each ground ...
An 18th-century estate for all seasons with 200 acres of parkland and Regency Mansion. The National Trust’s Attingham Park, one Shropshire’s finest country estate, has been the setting for astutely accumulated fortunes, overspending and financial ruin, a story of love and neglect, and revival and rediscovery. Bequeathed to the National Trust in 1947 by Thomas, […]
