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Erddig
is a very special place. It is a unique family home that has
captured the way of life of a bustling household community
during the early years of this century. Below stairs a fascinating
collection of portraits, photographs and verses records the
people who spent their working lives on the estate, and tells
of the Yorke family's high regard for their servants. Upstairs
the rooms contain an original collection of 18th century furniture
and are filled with the accumulated treasures of a family
that never threw anything away from the rare and beautiful,
to the trivial and commonplace.
Your visit starts in the estate buildings where the joiner
and blacksmith worked, through the Midden Yard, with saw mill
and cart sheds, to the Stable Yard with its tackroom, carriages,
vintage cycles and cars. From there you will continue to the
laundry, bakehouse and kitchen.
Erdigg's
walled garden is one of the most important surviving 18th
century gardens in Britain. It has rare fruit trees, a canal,
pond and a National Ivy Collection.
ollection.
Photo Gallery
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