Peckforton Castle wedding map print

John Tollemache, later the 1st Baron Tollemache, was a wealthy Cheshire landowner whom Gladstone called the greatest estate manager of his day. Between 1844 and 1850 he spent £60,000 having Anthony Salvin build him a castle of rock-faced red sandstone, with a gatehouse, a dry moat and a round tower five storeys high.

Historic England calls it the last serious fortified home built in England. Its later lives have been varied: a hostel for disabled children in the Second World War, a private home, a film location for the 1991 Robin Hood with Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman, and a hotel since Evelyn Graybill converted it after buying it in 1988.

Look north from the castle and you see its older neighbour. Beeston Castle, a genuine medieval ruin, crowns its own crag under a mile away, just past the top of the artwork. What the map holds is the wooded hill around Peckforton, its contours crowding the slopes, with the Sandstone Trail passing below on the north side, a path your guests might have walked the morning after.