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Castle Farm, Castle Camps

Introduction

Features include a walled garden and orchard.

A Buck engraving of 1730 shows a multi-gabled house with its 15th century brick tower and walled garden to the west. Thomas Sutton of the London Charterhouse lived here at the same date. Charterhouse became owners and built much of what is standing today.

The garden wall to the north is largely 16th or 17th century. In 1919, the sale particulars record the walled-in garden and small orchard. Today some fruit trees remain and there is evidence of an earlier terrace leading to a lower lawn with evergreen shrubs and topiary yews which leads to the garden gate giving access to the nearby church.

History

This castle, the largest medieval fortress in the county, was built by Aubrey de Vere, Earl of Oxford, shortly after 1068. Nearby is the site of a motte and bailey with a deserted medieval village to the north.

Period

  • Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
  • Tudor (1485-1603)
Features & Designations

Features

  • Garden Wall
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  • Garden Terrace
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  • Orchard
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  • Lawn
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  • Topiary
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  • Castle (featured building)
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Key Information

Type

Park

Purpose

Ornamental

Principal Building

Domestic / Residential

Period

Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)

Survival

Extant

Civil Parish

Castle Camps

References

Contributors

  • Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust