Weston Park is a country house in Weston-under-Lizard, Staffordshire, Britain , set in more than one thousand acres of park landscaped by Capacity Brown. The park is found ten miles (sixteen km) north-west of Wolverhampton, and eight miles (thirteen km) north-east of Telford, near to the border with Shropshire.The 17th century Hall is a Grade I listed to building and several features of the estate, e. G the Orangery are separately listed as Grade II.
The History of Western Park:-
The land on which Weston stands was first discussed in the Domesday Book, when it was held by Norman Rainald de Bailleuil, Policeman to Roger de Montgomery. The principal of survivor those distant times is the park which now forms a component of the medieval deer park and forest. The land was then held by the de Weston from whom it passed through inheritance to a branch of the Mytton family.
Their heiress, Elizabeth Mytton married Sir Thomas Wilbraham and, through the Wilbraham's girl Mary carried the property to the Earls of Bradford thru her wedding to Richard Newport, second Earl of Bradford of the first creation. The house was built in 1671 for Woman Elizabeth Wilbraham. While it is frequently claimed that she was her very own designer, there isn't any decisive documentary proof for this and it's most likely the executant designer was William Taylor, who is understood to once have been at Weston Park in 1674.
Woman Wilbraham was allegedly a positive patron nonetheless, and her heavily-annotated copy of Palladio's book ( I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura ) remains in the collection at Weston Park. The 3 storey 12 bayed south front of the House was initially the entrance front but changes and enhancements carried out in the second 19th century for the third Earl of Bradford of the second creation concerned the movement of the key entrance to the east front. In the 18th Century the failure of the male line of the Newport Earls of Bradford, Weston was inherited by Sir Henry Bridgeman, fifth Bt, whose mum Woman Anne Bridgeman ( ne Newport ) was a grand-daughter of Woman Wilbraham.
The Bridgemans were already significant landowners in Shropshire and in Warwickshire but selected to make Weston their main seat. Sir Henry Bridgeman commissioned Capacity Brown to landscape the park.He also employed to James Paine make alteration to the House and, in the park, to add a Roman Bridge and Church of Dianalater described by the respected designer as "my greenhouse at Weston".