An exciting and rare survival of a High Victorian garden, acquired by the Trust in 1988 and focus of an extensive restoration project. Conceived by James Bateman, the garden is divided into a number of smaller gardens designed to house specimens from his extensive and wide-ranging plant collection. An Egyptian Read more [...]
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Alton Towers Gardens
Alton Towers was the site of eighth century fortress held by Ceolred, King of Mercia. The castle on the site was occupied by the Earl of Shrewsbury from 1412, when Lady Ankarat de Verdun married Sir John Talbot, and it remained in the Talbot family’s ownership until the 1920s. The Read more [...]