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Cholmondeley Castle

Other OS name in the Parish of Malpas

Historical Forms

  • the newly erected Mansion House called Cholmondeley Castle 1787 Chol

Etymology

, the newly erected Mansion House called Cholmondeley Castle 1787Chol , like Peckforton Castle 3312 and Bolesworth Castle 14supra , an eighteenth - century extravagance , v. castel(l) , cf. Old Hall infra .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site