Hawarden Estate

Hawarden Estate is a special, sprawling space of history and intrigue. Perched on the edge of North Wales beside the Roman city of Chester, it is home to a 13th-century fortification with iron-age origins and an 18th-century castle once home to four-time Prime Minister William Gladstone.

Enveloped by scenic rural parkland, this is a seriously unique location that also has its own private lake, walled garden and miles of woodland.

Hawarden Castle, was the estate of the former Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), having previously belonged to his wife, Catherine Glynne. It was built in 1752-57 for Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, to the designs of Samuel Turner. When W.E. Gladstone died in 1898 it passed to his grandson, William Glynne Charles Gladstone (son of W. E. Gladstone’s eldest son, William Henry Gladstone, who had died in 1891). After he was killed in the First World War the estate was purchased by his uncle Henry Neville Gladstone, later to become 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden.