Shugborough Estate
The mysterious Shugborough Estate is the ancestral home of the Earls of Lichfield. With rumoured connections to the Holy Grail, the 364-hectare (900-acre) classical landscape is peppered with unusual monuments. The fine Georgian mansion house, with magnificent views over riverside garden terraces, features stunning collections of porcelain. Costumed characters work in the servants' quarters and farmstead: doing laundry, cheese making, milling, brewing and baking. In these areas the Staffordshire County Museum collections are held including reconstructed chemist shop, tailors' shop, Victorian schoolroom and puppet collection. In addition, the newly restored walled garden grows historic varieties of fruit and vegetables. Note: operated by Staffordshire County Council. Charges for servants' quarters and farm entrance, including members
Experience the beautiful sights, evocative sounds, real smells and true taste of a complete working historic estate. Set on the banks of the River Sow, with its magnificent 17th-century mansion house, along with working Victorian servants' quarters and Georgian park farm with watermill (c.1805), Shugborough provides a full day out with tours, guides and living costumed characters ready to share a powerful set of stories from the past
Don't miss:
View the new Patrick Lichfield photographic exhibition.
Discover our champion tree – the widest tree in Europe.
Get stuck into dollypegging in the original Victorian laundry.
VISITORS INFORMATION:
Prices:
Standard Admission Members (free entry to house and gardens only):
Complete estate upgrade ticket (with free parking):
adult £6, child £3.50, family £15.
Parking (free with a complete estate upgrade ticket):
adult £3. Non-members/day visitors:
adult £12, child £7, family £30.
Concessionary ticket £9.50 for day visitors, £5 (members' concessionary ticket)
Group Visits
Average length of visit: 5 hours. Guided tour (additional charge). Out of hours tours (additional charge).
Coach parking
Coach parking. Drop-off point 100yds from house before 10:30. After 10:30 transport from car park via shuttle or land train
On site catering
Lady Walk Tea-room (not NT) (licensed), assisted service, 70 covers in Midden Courtyard. Menus based on historically inspired recipes using local ingredients. Hot meals 12-2:30, light refreshments 11-4:45. Garden room available for parties and group lunches. Set menu, private room, out of hours catering available.
Facilities
Shopping & eating
Licensed tea-room serving homemade, locally sourced food. Seek out the perfect present in our gift shop. Treat yourself in the ice-cream parlour. Old-fashioned sweet shop and craft outlets selling handmade goods.
Parking
£3 (pay and display). Refunded on purchase of an all-sites ticket
Learning
Suitable for school groups. Education room/centre. Live interpretation. Hands-on activities
Families & children
Baby-changing and feeding facilities. Hip-carrying infant seats for loan. Children's play area with adapted equipment to make it accessible for all. Children's guide. Children's quiz/trail. Farm gives children chance to see domestic and rare breeds of animals. Games gallery in corn mill. Pushchairs admitted to farm
Mobility information
Parking
Designated parking in the main car park. Accessible parkland walkway, land train and shuttle available for transfer to house and servants' quarters. Shuttle wheelchair accessible
Building
Many steps to mansion house entrance, stairclimber suitable for most wheelchairs. 6 wheelchairs. Stairs to all floors
WCs
At ticket office, farm and servants' quarters
Grounds
Partly accessible. Accessible route. 3 single seater PMV's available
Getting there
Bus services
Arriva 825 Stafford –Lichfield (passing close Lichfield City )
Cycling
View local cycle routes on the National Cycle Network website
By road
Signposted from M6 exit 13; 6 miles east of Stafford on A513; entrance at Milford
By train
Rugeley Town 5 miles; Rugeley Trent Valley 5 miles; Stafford 6 miles
On foot
pedestrian access from east, from the canal/Great Haywood side of the estate. Estate walks link to towpaths along Trent & Mersey Canal and Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal and to Cannock Chase trails. Lies on Staffordshire Way
Address :
Ordnance survey reference
127:SJ992225
Shugborough Estate
Milford,
near Stafford,
Staffordshire
ST17 0XB