Site Event/Activity record ECH6503 - Appleton Hall - Research and Recording

Summary Hall built in 1820 and lived in by Lyon family until they moved away. In 1850, Bagshaw’s Directory described Appleton Hall as a beautiful, modern mansion, stuccoed, and surrounded with a finely undulating park, interspersed with shrubberies and plantations. Hall now demolished. Site now a school and surrounding parkland is a modern housing estate. Some farmland remains. Principal remaining features Gate piers to main entrance to estate Drive to school follows the same line as when it led to the Hall Some trees remain Farms and houses on the wider estate Quarry - disused Lyon obelisk is still on High Warren (golf course) but not accessible as the land it stands on is owned by United Utilities.