The origins of Adlington Hall can be traced back to Saxon times when Earl Edwin built a Hunting Lodge there. Adlington has changed in many ways from the original hunting lodge which occupied the site. Of this structure nothing remains apart from the two oak trees around which the lodge was built and which now stand at the east end of the Great Hall. At one stage, the Hall was surrounded by a moat and it is possible that the west side was open whilst on the south side there may have been a detached gatehouse with a bridge over the moat.
