Robert Welch, a
Liverpool merchant who lived at High House, Leck, bought the
Thurland Castle estate in 1771, but his son Robert sold all of the land but the part which is now the Leck estate. On Robert's death his brother George had architect
John Carr design and build a new house to replace High House, which was afterwards called Leck Hall. It was altered in 1830 and again in 1963. The estate was purchased in 1952 by Charles Kay-Shuttleworth, 4th Baron Shuttleworth who moved there from
Gawthorpe Hall in 1970. The current owner is his son
Charles Kay-Shuttleworth, 5th Baron Shuttleworth. ==See also==