Chartley Holme in 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"CHARTLEY HOLME, (or Chartley Lodge), an extra-parochial place in the southern division of the hundred of Pirehill, in the county of Stafford, 8 miles N.E. of Stafford, and 1 N. of Stowe. The old timbered mansion, where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned, was burnt down in 1781, and the new hall, erected on its site by Earl Ferrars, was also destroyed by fire in 1847; it was surrounded by a fine park of 1,000 acres.

This is one of the few places in Great Britain where the indigenous breed of wild cattle is to be found pure. In this park, on a hill, stand the ruins of two round towers, the remains of Chartley Castle, built in 1220 by the Earl of Chester.

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]