Properties Owned By The Earls of Shrewsbury
- Alveston Hall hunting lodge
- Alton Towers, built on the site of Alveston Hall in 1811-14 as the family seat; sold 1924
- Barlow Woodseats Hall bought 1593; sold mid 1600s
- Grafton Manor, seat of John Talbot of Grafton’s son George before inheriting the title; sold in 1934
- Heythrop Park, developed as the family seat in 1700–1705; burnt down in 1831 and sold in 1870
- Ingestre Hall, inherited by marriage to the Chetwynd family in 1748; sold to Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council in 1960
- Wanfield Hall, the current family seat
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