A skilfully designed 15 acre garden with well-maintained lawns, a tree collection, shrubs, heathers, herbaceous plants, walls and terraces. Connections with Jane Austin who visited many times. The Walled Garden is Goodnestone’s most renowned and popular area, and many visitors think that the central view through the succession of mellow brick-walled enclosures to the church tower, is one of the best in any English garden. Some of the walls are older than the house and having been carefully restored through the 1960s and 1970s they are now hung with a range of climbers and wall plants including clematis, jasmine, solanum and roses, Fremontodendron ‘California Glory’ and Carpentaria californica.