Year | | Year | |
1086 | The Doomsday Book records Salton (Saighton) belonging to the Abbey of St Werburge | 1861 | Monastic buildings demolished and new West wing reconstructed |
1091 | Saighton included in the Charter by Hugh Lupus for the new Benedictine Abbey of St Werburgh | 1867 | Service wing extended |
1870 | Chapel built |
1272 1399 | Licenses for crenellations granted | 1874 | Victor, Son of 1st Duke lives at Saighton with his wife Sibell |
1489 | Abbot Simon Ripley builds a new crenellated tower gateway. | 1876 | East wing added |
1538 | Dissolution of the monastery and Saighton seized by George Beverly of Huntington | 1884 | Victor dies 1884. |
1913 | Sibell’s 2nd husband George Wyndham, dies |
1929 | Sibell dies |
1541 | Calveley family of Lea acquire Saighton manor | 1939-45 | Used by Red Cross and St John’s as convalescent home for wounded airmen. |
1640s | Civil war. Agents of Cromwell take the manor and sell it to publican Charles Walley. | 1956 | Col. Gerald and Mrs Grosvenor move to Saighton. Becomes 4th Duke of Westminster in 1963 |
1755 | Walley’s Great Grandson’s widow sells the manor to Foster Cunliffe of Acton. | 1967 | Gerald dies at Saighton. Sally, Duchess of Westminster vacates Saighton in 1969 |
1840s | Saighton Grange purchased by the 2nd Marquess of Westminster | 1970 - 77 | House rented |