OUR STORY
Rudge Estate is located in South East Shropshire on the boundary with Staffordshire and is comprised of 800 acres of mixed farmland and woodland. The Hall is situated on the highest part of the estate and enjoys incredible views west across the rolling Shropshire hills. At Rudge, our ethos is about providing the best quality product to all of our customers, whether it be, your special event at Rudge Hall, the best riding track or a prompt delivery of our quality seasoned hardwood logs and kindling.
Rudge Hall
We are also very passionate about the countryside we live in. We are part of a stewardship program, which focuses on endangered and struggling habitats and wildlife. On the south-west side of the estate we are very lucky to have a large area of rare lowland heath which we are expanding and restoring back to its former glory. The lowland heath habitat provides a home to a host of flora and fauna including lizards, solitary bees and of course heather.
Our Longhorn Cattle
A house has existed on the same site since medieval origins dating back to 14th century when William de Rugge lived at the property. The house and estate has had a few reincarnations over the last 500 years, and more recently in the 1930’s by William Wilson, the current owner’s great grandfather who bought it from the Wright-Boycott family. William Wilson turned the Gothic and rather plain looking house into the redbrick neo Georgian façade of today.
At home in the walled garden
The house was briefly out of the family from the late 1980’s until 2014, but is now back in the estate and is in the process of being restored back to its 1930’s interior. Rediscovering panelling and cupboard doors amongst other items in the barn. Many pieces have been put back into their original 1930's place including a hall fireplace and surround and a cast iron roll top bath. We are lucky enough to have a few black and white photos from 1930's to work from.
The gardens also have had a lot of work done to them since 2014. Including turning a completely empty walled garden, into a thriving orchard and vegetable patch. As we don't have the many gardeners it would have taken to maintain a full walled garden and orchard, we have created a smaller version with espalier apple and pear trees around the perimeter wall and many other different varieties of fruit trees in the middle. Although the old peach house and greenhouses have long gone there are remnants of them and perhaps we will be able to put them back in the not-too-distant future.
We have recently taken on the task of grafting the Tetenhall Dick, a very old local variety of perry pear tree. The mother tree is very old and in danger of falling over so cuttings have been taken to make sure this lovely tree continues on into the future.
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