History of Buildwas Park Hall



Acknowledgement: Mike Guy

The Buildwas Estate is between Much Wenlock, Wellington and Shrewsbury. At one time the estate stretched from Clee Hills to the Wrekin and covered two areas known as Buildwas Estate and West Coppice.

In 1715, West Coppice was purchased by Acton Moseley it then became known as Buildwas Park Estate. The original West Coppice manor house and stable block were built in 1722. The grounds were adorned with ornamental trees, shrubs, lakes and ponds. A double arched avenues of yew trees and a walled garden.

Walter Moseley owned the estate in 1827 and in 1830 West Coppice manor house burnt down and new house built on site. Buildwas Park Hall was a modern mansion, in the Elizabethan style of architecture.

More Modern times

In 1887 Lieut-Col Harold WAF Crichton-Bowne, his wife Margaret and his children Cecil and Gladys were tenants at Buildwas Park Hall and they purchased the estate in 1929. They resided there until it was sold in 1940 to Frederick Carder.

Buildwas Park Hall was taken over in the Second World War as a searchlight battery to protect the Ironbridge Power Station. It was unoccupied from 1946 and demolished in 1957 because during the requisition the house was physically unrestorable or unable to be economically repaired.



Sandra Hardwick