Lathom Park was one of only three Remount Depots in the UK for many of the war horses. The horses arrived at the railway station from Liverpool Docks, later there was a direct link to Lathom Park.

Between August 1914 and November 1, 1917, a total of 215,300 horses were brought to Lathom. Of these, 210,800 were sent into active service. A number were sent to the front or to reserve depots in ...

Lathom Park is home to the ruins of Lathom Castle which was once home to Margaret Beaufort, the mother of King Henry VII. At ...

Lathom Park estate, near Ormskirk in Lancashire, was home to Lathom Remount Depot, one of of Britain’s three largest equestrian operations during the First World War.

The walk, from Ormskirk railway station to Lathom Park, is following in the hoof prints of more than 200,000 horses who passed through the town. Lathom Park was one of only three Remount Depots in ...

HORSES played a major part on the battlefields of World War One, as the new Steven Spielberg film War Horse portrays. And more than 200,000 horses that went to war with the soldiers were trained ...

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