Erddig
Erddig Hall was built in 1687, and was designed by Thomas Webb. It was built for Joshua Edisbury, the high sheriff of Denbighshire, Wales.
The building was sold to the master of the Chancery, John Mellor in 1718. John Mellor refurbished and enlarged the house, and then passed it to his nephew, Simon Yorke. The house was passed down through the Yorke family until 1973, when the nearby coal mine had a shaft collapse under the house, and it began to sink in the subsidence, and would have collapsed. So it was given to the National Trust, and strengthened.
The house remains to this day, and many of John Mellors purchases are preserved within the house. The nearby river supplied a source of water, and it was pumped uphill by a self running hydraulic ram, which utilised falling water to power itself, and pump the drinking water uphill to the house.
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