TODAY’S COUNTRY LIFE heralds the launch onto the market, for the first time in 700 years, of one of Cheshire’s great land holdings, the 1,921-acre Adlington Hall estate, which lies five miles east of Wilmslow, seven miles north of Macclesfield and 16 miles south of Manchester. At its heart stands Grade I-listed Adlington Hall, a quadrangular building set around a central courtyard. Built on the site of a Saxon hunting lodge, it has been the seat of the Legh family since 1315.
The historic estate, which comprises six let farms, a further 22 houses and cottages, plus various ancillary buildings and parcels of land, is
