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Boxworth House (also known as Old Rectory)

Introduction

Features of Boxworth House include a kitchen garden, pool, canal, boat house and orchard.

The Ordnance Survey map of 1888 shows a kitchen garden, a plunge pool and a canal with boat house. The property now includes part of the old orchard on medieval ridge and furrow and to the north east, Browns Leys Grove, and the remains of an extensive elm wood, which had cross rides. There are fine specimen trees—evergreen oak, plane and chestnuts—which today shade the canal.
History

Formerly the Old Rectory, the house stands in extensive grounds of four hectares which include the old medieval street and part of the old village green.

Features & Designations

Features

  • Kitchen Garden
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  • Orchard
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  • Pool
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  • Canal
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  • Boat House
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  • House (featured building)
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Key Information

Type

Garden

Purpose

Ornamental

Principal Building

Domestic / Residential

Survival

Extant

Hectares

4

Civil Parish

Boxworth

References

Contributors

  • Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust