History
Twemlow Hall was owned by the Booth family, cadets of the Booths of Dunham Massey, from the 16th until 19th century. [2]
The third son of Sir William Booth (died 1519), High Sheriff of Cheshire, [3] was Edward Booth who was demised a moiety of the manor of Twemlow as a dowry by his second marriage in 1523 to Mary Knutsford, elder daughter and co-heiress of Roger Knutsford (died 1537), of Nether Knutsford [4] whose great-grandfather John Knutsford (died 1459), inherited from his mother, Katherine de Twemlow.
Originally timber-framed built in the Tudor architectural style for William Booth (1526–1591), [5] his grandson, John Booth (1584–1659) better known as the Cheshire Genealogist [6] who died unmarried, began rebuilding Twemlow Hall with his younger brother, Lawrence Booth (1599–1662), [7] completed in the late 17th century by his son John Booth (1641–1698). His grandson, Thomas Booth (1695–1786), High Sheriff of Cheshire for 1737/38, [8] was last of the male line seated at Twemlow which he demised to his elder sister's son, the Reverend Prebendary Charles Everard Booth JP DD (1726–1792), [9] who bequeathed the family estate to his nephew, Captain Walter Griffith Booth RN (1750–1810), [10] whose father Ralph Griffith was elder brother of the distinguished Captain Walter Griffith.
His kinsman, William Bache Booth (1793–1830), [11] inherited Twemlow Hall in 1810 which he "much altered" in 1817 [12] after marrying Mary Ann Fox. Their surviving son, Walter Booth (1822–1880), of Frimley Park, Surrey (whose only child, Mary Booth married William Jones, of Pool Park, near Ruthin, Denbighshire), [13] sold the Booth moiety of the manor of Twemlow and estate in 1862 to Colonel Egerton Leigh JP DL MP , [14] author of Ballads and Legends of Cheshire (1867) and of A Glossary of Words Used in the Dialect of Cheshire (1877). A major county landowner, Colonel Egerton Leigh was principally seated at nearby Jodrell Hall and Broadwell Manor in Gloucestershire, [15] also owning the Cheshire estates of West Hall, High Legh and Kermincham House, [16] and Bulcote Lodge in Nottinghamshire. [17] His son, Captain Egerton Leigh (1843–1928), who married Lady Elizabeth White (1847–1880) sister of Lady Ardilaun, sold the estate in 1924 to Sir Edwin Stockton.
Twemlow Hall was renovated again in 1974. [18]
