Little Moreton Hall

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One thing you can always rely on around Cheshire is history. And that is what you get in abundance at Little Moreton Hall. It is a real treat, whether you've been before or not. Internally and externally, the place is beautiful; the re-creation knot garden within the moat offers a stunning setting for the rather lolloping hall structure; its drunken frame belies its long, sturdy history. Those Elizabethan builders may have been rather ambivalent towards right-angles, but they knew what they were doing!

The name Moreton is thought to be a combination of two Norse words: "Mor" meaning marshland and "Tun" meaning farm. The earliest version of the hall (certain aspects of which still survive) was built by Sir Richard de Moreton in the mid-fifteenth century. This was inherited by William Moreton at the end of the fifteenth century. He built onto the existing structure, but it was another William Moreton, and his son John, who created the hall as it can be seen today, during the second half of the sixteenth century.