The 11 acre gardens of How Caple Court date from Edwardian times and are set high above the River Wye with views toward the Forest of Dean and the Welsh Mountains. Formal terraces with yew hedges, pools, statues and a traditional rose garden contrast with less formal plantings of mature trees and shrubs. These important ‘Arts and Crafts’ gardens, in their heyday immaculately formal, have with the passing of time relaxed into an intensely romantic semi-wilderness, redolent of a lost ‘Golden Afternoon’. A magnificently atmospheric Italianate water garden can be discovered, almost hidden in the surrounding woodland.