Stafforshire Walks, Weston

A 6m circular in September 2006 from Weston, via Gayton, Sandon Park, Sandon and return by the Trent and Mersey Canal. Weather rain, heavy at times, clearing late on.

Grade II Listed Building

Weston Hall is a magnificent grade II* listed building. The Hall retains many of its Elizabethan features including open stone fireplaces and oak beams in many of the rooms. Now a Hotel, events and wedding centre.

"The stone square arched tower with ornate balustrade top is Grade II* listed but is in a state of disrepair and considered to be at risk. Designed by Sir Charles Barry it was once the upper part of a square tower that formed part of Trentham Hall, a few miles north near Stoke-on-Trent. The tower was moved to Sandon Park, stone by stone, when Trentham Hall was demolished in 1910-12."

A place for Lunch? Yes a nice porch to shelter. Ladies were attending the Church in preparation for a wedding, they must of thought we were quite mad! Grade I Listed Building. "There has been a church at this site in Sandon since at least 1130 when records confirm it was gifted to the Abbey of Combermere in Cheshire as part of a parcel of land in Sandon. No traces of the Norman church remain as the church has been adapted and rebuilt from the late 13th Century onwards.'