Erddig Hall was home to the Yorke family for 240 years.

When the house was handed over to the National Trust in 1973 Philip Yorke insisted that nothing should be removed from the house and so it has a huge collection of objects, both everyday and rare. The Yorke family had a high regard for their servants and so there is a detailed record of the people who lived and worked on the estate. The walled garden is one of the most important surviving 18th century formal gardens in Britain while the landscape was designed by William Emes, one of the leading designers of the time.