Tatton Park Tatton Park is a country estate in the county of Cheshire situated between Knutsford and Manchester . Owned by the Stanley family in the 15th century , a hall was built on the land which was bought by Sir Thomas Egerton , the Lord Chancellor of England , in 1598 . One of his descendants , John Egerton , built the present house at the end of the 17th century and this hall , the deer park , formal gardens and a farm passed to the National Trust in 1958 when the last Lord Egerton died without issue . The hall and park was the destination for an outing of Coronation Street ' s women in August 1967 while the menfolk enjoyed themselves on a canal boat on the waterways of Cheshire . Annie Walker and Emily Nugent organised the trip which saw Elsie Tanner , days away from being married to Steve Tanner , being pursued by lecherous coach driver Frank Hoyle and her and Irma Barlow having to be rescued from his attentions by Ena Sharples and Emily Nugent . Annie was entranced by the interior of the hall which has all the trappings one would expect of a stately home but Hilda Ogden scandalised her by offering her opinion that it would look better if it was decorated to make it look more modern ! The men and women of the two parties were surprised when they came across one another when the canal barge reached the grounds of the park . In April 1984 , Ken and Deirdre Barlow had to put off a visit to the park when Christine Glover , a mentally - ill woman who had contacted Ken through his editorship of the " Weatherfield Recorder " and who was threatening suicide was hospitalised . Twenty - seven years later , Steve McDonald offered wife Becky a trip there to try and placate her over the loss of custody of his daughter Amy Barlow . Background . Tatton Park was the site of the location videotaping for the first ever episode of " Coronation Street " to be made entirely on location - Episode 700 ( 30th August 1967 ) - which made full use of the house , both interior and exterior and the famous Japanese Garden within the grounds . In reality , no canal or navigable waterway goes through the park and recording for the canal boat sequences probably took place on the Trent and Mersey Canal several miles south of Tatton Park . The episode was devised as a treat for the cast by producer Jack Rosenthal as an alternative to the weekly routine of rehearsal and studio recording . He was staggered to find that the members of the company disliked the location shooting intensely , complaining about all manner of things , such as having to walk on grass , and far preferring to be inside their normal routine in their Manchester studio base . The gardens were also used for a special photoshoot for " TV Times " in June 1984 which featured Jean Alexander and Betty Driver , both keen horticulturalists . The park had a long association with Granada Television who used it extensively for the shooting of their acclaimed 1981 adaptation of " Brideshead Revisited " in which the interior of the house stood in for the interior of Marchmain House , fictionally located in London , while the conservatory was used for a sequence set in Brideshead Castle though the remainder was famously filmed at Castle Howard in Yorkshire . The exterior of the house was seen in a sequence where Charles Ryder captures it on canvas in the seventh episode from a vantage point in the gardens . External link . Official site