Notable Designers in Cheshire

This list includes influential and well-known designers and also more locally based designers and landscape gardeners who have been involved to varying degrees in the creation of the historic designed landscapes of Cheshire.

R Indicates sites on the Historic England Register of Parks & Gardens

This is work in progress and we hope to enlarge this list as our research continues.

ARABELLA LENNOX-BOYD 1938 - Eaton Hall R

BERESFORD PITE 1861 - 1934 Burton Manor R

CHARLES EDWARD MALLOWS 1864 - 1915 Tirley Garth with Thomas Mawson R

DETMAR BLOW 1867 - 1939 Eaton Hall R

EDWARD KEMP 1817 - 1891 Born in Streatham, Surrey, he worked as Joseph Paxton’s superintendent at Birkenhead Park, becoming a prominent landscape gardener, designing many parks and gardens in Cheshire and throughout England and Wales. Publication: How to Lay Out a Garden Agden Hall, Lymm Birkenhead Park R Castle Park (formerly Park Place), Frodsham R Congleton Park with William Blackshaw R Foxdale, Bunbury Flaybrick Memorial Gardens R Grosvenor Park, Chester R Halton Grange Inglewood House, Ledsham Leadworks, Chester Ledsham Hall Limegrove &Redcliff, Chester Lymm Hall Massey Hall, Thelwall Norley Hall Queens Park, Crewe R Stanacres, Thornton Hough

EDWARD LAPIDGE 1779 - 1860 Doddington Hall R

EDWIN LUTYENS 1869 - 1944 Eaton Hall R

ERNEST PRESTWICH 1889 - 1977 Port Sunlight Village – formal open spaces R

GEOFFREY ALAN JELLICOE 1901 - 1996 Waterways at former Cadbury’s Factory Moreton, Wirral

GEORGE BRIGGS Stamford Park, Stalybridge R

GREGORY HILL of Stalybridge Stamford Park, Stalybridge R

HUBERT WORTHINGTON 1886 - 1963 Peover Hall R

HUMPHRY REPTON 1752 - 1818 Crewe Hall (unverified) Rode Hall - Red Book R Tatton Park – Red Book R

JAMES MELLOR 1796 - 1891 Mellors Garden

JAMES RUSSELL 1920 - 1996 Hare Hill Eaton Hall R Cholmondeley Castle R

JOHN SHAW Jnr 1851 - Wythenshawe Park R

JOHN SHAW Snr 1812 - 1890 Stamford Park, Altrincham R Dunham Massey R

JOHN WEBB 1754 - 1828 Cholmondeley Castle R Combermere Abbey (unverified) R Crewe Hall (unverified) R Eaton Hall R Rode Hall R Tabley Hall Park R Tatton Hall R

JOSEPH PAXTON 1803 - 1865 Birkenhead Park R Tatton Park R

LANCELOT BROWN 1716 - 1783 Doddington Hall R Dunham Massey R Eaton Hall (unverified) R

LEWIS WYATT 1777 - 1853 Lyme Park R Tatton Park R

THOMAS MAWSON 1861 - 1933 Burton Manor R Thornton ManorR Tirley Garth with C E Mallows R

VICARY GIBBS plantsman 1853 - 1932 Lyme ParkR

WILLIAM ANDREWS NESFIELD 1793 - 1881 Capesthorne (with Salvin) R Combermere Abbey R Crewe Hall R Dorfold Hall R Eaton Hall R High Legh Hall Rode Hall R Tabley Hall (unverified) R Toft Hall

WILLIAM BARRON 1805 - 1891 West Park, MacclesfieldR

WILLIAM EMES 1730 - 1803 Arley Hall - Parterre (removed 1940) R Cholmondeley Castle R Crewe Hall R Peover Hall (unverified)

WILLIAM WILSON 1817 - 1875 Sale & Brooklands Cemetery