Shugborough village in paintings

[Ansellmw]

In Shugborough Hall, there are a couple of paintings which show cottages from the old village of Shugborough.   Are there any other paintings elsewhere that show the old village of Shugborough?

[dionysus]

Was there ever such a place as Shugborough village?

[Ansellmw]

Well, OK, village is probably too grand a term - hamlet or settlement is better; there was no church there - the inhabitants used the church at Colwich.   But there were inhabitants - Shugborough Hall hasn't always been there and, as I've mentioned, there are some pictures in the Hall itself of the remains of the village located near to where the 'Tower of the Winds' is now.   The Colwich church registers refer to such and such (there are a number of different spellings) of Shutboro or Shugborough.

[magdalena67]

In times gone by great houses used to have settlements on their estate for the workers... At Chatsworth House there is a village very close by to this day, although it does have a church. I am not very familiar with Shugborough but I have moved to Stoke-on-Trent, not too far away... I could see what I can find out, or whether there are records accessible online for you...

[Ansellmw]

Thank you - that's a very kind offer.   I think there are records at the county record office at Stafford and there's also a local studies section at Hanley library.   What I was hoping to find, though, were pictorial records of the hamlet of Shugborough - which isn't an estate village but the sellement that existed at Shugbough prior to the estate.   I don't think it's mentioned in Domesday but there were certainly inhabitants by 1300 which is several hundred years prior to the Shugborough estate.

[Marmalady]

In times gone by great houses used to have settlements on their estate for the workers... At Chatsworth House there is a village very close by to this day, although it does have a church.

That would be Edensor (pronounced Ensor)
The original village was demolished by a previous duke and rebuilt where it could not be seen from the House