Loton Park

Loton Park
The hall circa 1870. From an album of an uncle and aunt of the Leightons of the day. Showing on the far wall is Sir Joshua Reynolds' Frances Anne Crewe (miss Greville), as St. Genevieve, c1773.
A photograph of the hall, circa 1870.

Loton Park is a country house near Alberbury, Shrewsbury in Shropshire, on the upper reaches of the River Severn. It is a Grade II* listed building. It has been the seat of the Leighton family since 1391.[1]

It stands in 400 acres (1.6 km2) of parkland which includes one of the two privately owned deer parks to remain in Shropshire and is notable for its population of red kites.

  1. ^ "Sir Michael Leighton, Loton Park". Shropshire Life. 7 April 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2018.