The 1st of April marked our first road trip of 2021 to Malpas in Cheshire and Cholmondeley Castle.
The Cholmondeley Family have resided at Cholmondeley since the Norman times. The first member of the family to take the name was Robert de Cholmondeley; he became the 1st Lord of Cholmondeley in about 1200
In 1801, George James, 4th Earl of Cholmondeley was responsible for the demolition of the original Hall (click here for more history) and the erection of a comparatively small ‘gothic villa’, designed by a local architect William Turner of Whitchurch which is Cholmondeley Castle today.
The villa was subsequently extended in 1817–1819, perhaps to celebrate his accession to the Marquisate, but it was not until 1828 that several additional towers/turrets designed by Sir Robert Smirke were added to the structure to make it the Castle we see today.
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