Dorfold Hall is a Grade I listedStructure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection. mansion in Acton, Cheshire,[1] considered by the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner to be one of the two finest Jacobean houses in the county.[2] The house dates from 1616, when it was built for Ralph Wilbraham.[1]
The name Dorfold is derived from the Anglo-Saxon Deofold, signifying a cattle enclosure or deer park.[3]
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