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Hawkstone, Shropshire

Historical Description

Hawkstone, a township in Hodnet parish, Salop, 4½ miles E of Wem. Hawkstone is the seat of Viscount Hill, contains some interesting pictures and portraits, and is celebrated for an extraordinary combination of natural and artificial beauties in its grounds. Some of these are the Grotto and Retreat caverns, a lake 2 miles long, Lord Mayor Hill's column, 133 feet high, commanding a prospect over twelve counties, a summer-house with fine views, a Swiss bridge, a tent in which the treaty of El Arish was signed and brought over by Lord Hill, the Roman camp of Bury Walls, occupying 20 acres, in which coins and armour have been found, and the site of Red Castle, which was demolished in the Civil War. The mansion is partly of the time of Queen Anne.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Shropshire (Salop) is available to browse.


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Shropshire newspapers online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.