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Eaton Hall is home to the Grosvenor Family headed by Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster OBE TD DL and the Family home has been at Eaton since the 15th century. There have been many changes over
the centuries – the Hall has been rebuilt more than
once. During the first World War, from 1916, the Waterhouse
Hall was used as a Red Cross Hospital. Again during the
second World War it was used as a hospital, until 1943.
In that year H.M.S. Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth
was bombed. The College moved to Eaton until 1946 and
from then until 1960, when National Service came to an
end, the Hall was used as an Officer Cadet Training School.
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In 1989 work began on
transforming the 1970’s Denny’s Hall. The
Hall was not demolished, but altered and encased, the
style of the new Hall blending more happily with the
Cheshire landscape. Despite the changes Eaton remains
‘the jewel in the Grosvenor crown’. |
The Eaton Estate Office manages the 11,000-acre Eaton
Estate, which surrounds Eaton Hall. The Estate includes
residential and commercial properties, farms, woodland,
a deer park. In addition there are substantial estates
in Lancashire and Sutherland, and retail and office
properties in the centre of Chester.
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